Those who've seen It Ends With Us, the big-screen adaptation of Colleen Hoover's 2016 novel about domestic abuse, may be looking forward to Regretting You, another movie based on a Hoover novel, this one published in 2019. Director Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars) finds little credible drama in a movie that wraps itself in enough contrivance to squeeze most of the life out of it. The movie begins by introducing four characters who've known each other since high school. Morgan (Allison Williams) seems happily married to Chris (Scott Eastwood). Meanwhile, Morgan's sister (Willa Fitzgerald) is about to marry the father of her baby (Dave Franco). Like most teenagers Clara -- Morgan and Chris's 17-year-old daughter -- is starting to chart her own course. A big-time tragedy upsets everyone's apple cart, setting off a cascading series of events that can't be revealed without spoilers. Clara's story, which feels like it belongs in another movie, charts her relationship with Miller (Mason Thames), a kid who's more mature emotionally than she is. Despite dropping a tragic bomb into the story, the movie scatters little emotional shrapnel. AMC Theaters receives a major product placement in a film that comes up short on interesting characters and credible behavior.
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