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Regretting You is everything you'd expect from this genre - and from this author. It's cheesy at times, emotional, dramatic, and heartwarming - the perfect kind of popcorn movie for the season. It'll make you feel warm, cozy, and simply happy - just an overall good time.

What truly elevates it is the cast, especially Mckenna Grace and Mason Thames, who shine with such authenticity and charm. Both are clearly on the path to future Oscar glory, with incredibly bright careers ahead.

What could have been just another generic adaptation of Colleen Hoover's novel becomes a film with its own identity, supported by good performances and confident direction. Mckenna Grace is the standout, delivering a magnetic performance that elevates the material and makes the audience connect with her journey.

Regretting You is, above all, a film about new beginnings. Even if it doesn't explore the full depth of its drama, it wins you over with its emotional honesty and the way it transforms pain into learning. It's a romance that moves, entertains, and proves that sometimes lightness can be as powerful as suffering.

I didn't enjoy it as much as I wanted to... I loved the actors and the acting, the screenplay and cinematography was stunning, but the direction and editing seemed so off and choppy. There was no flow or depth to the movie despite the base plot being deep and filled with emotion.

I didn't read the book, but oh well, this movie makes me never wanna read it... My rating is for the cast and not the movie really...

Regretting You is a new romantic drama directed by Josh Boone, the director of The Fault in Our Stars and The New Mutants. The film is based on the novel of the same name by author Colleen Hoover.

Morgan (Allison Williams) became a mother at a young age to her daughter Clara (Mckenna Grace), together with her partner Chris (Scott Eastwood). Their relationship is often tense, and when Chris passes away, things only get worse.

When Morgan's sister Jenny (Willa Fitzgerald) also dies, Jonah (Dave Franco) - Jenny's partner - and Morgan try to navigate this period of grief and loss together while supporting their children. During these difficult times, they learn more about each other and about their deceased partners than they ever expected.

Because the film tries to quickly introduce the four friends - two couples - it can be hard to follow everything clearly. In addition, some events come across as somewhat implausible, as if they would fit better in a teenage drama, even though the story revolves around older characters.

These unclear and unrealistic elements sometimes make the film feel a bit tedious. For a film running nearly two hours, the screenwriter seems to have paid insufficient attention to the development of all the characters, making the whole feel somewhat unbalanced. Some questions raised by the story remain unanswered, making certain plotlines feel unnecessary.

The title of the film, referring to the regret over certain people or choices, could have been more impactful if the characters had more honest conversations and behaved in a more mature way.

Because of the unclear and implausible aspects of the story, the cast members don't always get the chance to shine. Most do their best with the material they're given, but many have delivered stronger performances in better-written films.

Was McKenna Grace up to the task of starring in Regretting You, a film based on the Colleen Hoover novel? I have to say no, unless you like your family dramas to feel like just another movie-of-the-weak, pun intended. The film, whose themes are loss, betrayal and grief, fails to wring any true emotional reaction from the audience. When you're looking forward to the appearance of co-stars Lexie (Sam Morelos) and Efren (Ethan Costanilla), more than the scenes between stars Allison Williams as Morgan Grant and Dave Franco as Jonah Sullivan, your film might be in trouble.

Each actor seems to just bounce back from tragic, unexpected losses of a husband, sister, wife-to-be, best friend. Each display some deep well of acceptance that doesn't seem reality-based. It's as if everyone in the story is afraid to be angry. Perhaps that's because for 17 years, both Morgan and Jonah have ghost-walked through the roles they thought they were assigned - long suffering, just be nice, don't rock the boat. That's part of the twist, so I won't reveal it here.

As Miller Adams, the young man who wins the heart of Clara Grant (Grace), I appreciated Mason Thames' attempts to pull a human reaction out of Clara. The scenes which included Grace and Clancy Brown as Hank, Adam's ailing grandfather, were also well-meant and temporarily elevated the movie. However, it soon sunk back into mundanity. Clara Grant's dad is dead, as is Morgan Grant's husband, yet neither of the women seem to exhibit depression or anger. Apparently the well-documented Kubler-Ross five stages of grief were not included in the script. When the highest form of grief a parent reaches is grounding their kid, I'd say the might merit a visit from a social worker, a discussion with the school counselor, at the very least.

Did I hate Regretting You? No. It is simply unremarkable. Hoovers most recent book-to-screen adaption of It Ends With Us, which dealt with themes of conflict and spousal abuse, was infinitely more watchable.