The new movie "Regretting You" is a formulaic drama/tear-jerker based on the novel with the same name written by Coleen Hoover, which serves to prove how difficult an art form screenwriting is. There is a predictable, tragic event within the first 25% of this story, and then the problem is, where do you go from there? Unfortunately, the remainder of this story includes an entire daytime soap opera, with multiple discoveries of cheating that happened years earlier, with an on-again, off-again teenage relationship story fillers that, for the most part, provide scenes to make this rather bad movie its two hours.
Regretting You stars Allison Williams as Morgan Grant, McKenna Grace as her daughter, Clara Grant, with
Scott Eastwood as her husband Chris, and Jenny Davidson (Willa Fitzgerald) married to Jonah Sullivan (Dave Franco). They all create a love quadrangle involving two couples, all of whom have many secrets of infidelity. The problems with this movie are that it is too predictable, too boring in too many areas, with no real message after the two hours are finished.
This screenplay required many more rewrites and looks like it was rushed into production. The central climax/tragedy in this story happens too soon, and could have been corrected by more setup in the first act of this screenplay. The acting is OK, but due to the slow and boring parts, and the soap opera-like story there is no way this movie will be in theaters any longer than two weeks. This time around the extremely low Rotten Tomatoes of 30% is correct, with a recommendation to miss this movie.
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