Regretting You (2025)

Movie · 2025 · Romance, Drama · 1h 56m · PG-13 · English

Curator score: 0.5/10 (368.2K ratings)

Risk everything. Regret nothing.

Overview

Morgan Grant and her daughter Clara explore what's left behind after a devastating accident reveals a shocking betrayal and forces them to confront family secrets, redefine love, and rediscover each other.

Ratings

Director

Josh Boone

Production

Harbinger Pictures, Frayed Pages Media, Domain Entertainment, Constantin Film, north.five.six

Cast

Mckenna Grace, Mason Thames, Allison Williams, Dave Franco, Sam Morelos, Scott Eastwood, Willa Fitzgerald, Clancy Brown, Ethan Costanilla, Luke Pierre Roness, Daniel Smith, Alicia Cuthbertson, Marcelle LeBlanc, Kurt Yue, William Burnham Simmons, Ryan Conner Simmons, Joe Binford Jr., Aubrey Brockwell

Where to watch

Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, Paramount Plus Premium, Paramount Plus Essential, MGM Plus, Philo, Amazon Prime Video with Ads

Curator Review

Verdict

A glossy, melodramatic family-romance adaptation that seems built for fans of tearjerker twists, but the reception suggests more eye-rolling than catharsis. If you enjoy highly emotional, soapy relationship drama with a YA-adjacent sheen, it may be watchable; otherwise it looks overcooked and frustrating.

Best for

  • Viewers who like emotionally heightened family secrets and reconciliation dramas
  • Fans of contemporary romance with a strong melodramatic streak
  • People who enjoy adaptation discourse and campy, memeable movie reactions

Skip if

  • You want grounded, subtle character writing
  • You dislike contrived twists and soap-opera plotting
  • You are tired of glossy book-to-film melodrama

Overview

Regretting You plays like a polished emotional puzzle box: grief, betrayal, romance, and parent-child tension all colliding in a story about what happens when a family’s private mythology collapses. Josh Boone’s sensibility tends toward soft-focus feeling and earnest heartbreak, and this material is designed to push every button it can find.

Worth noting

The problem is that the movie’s appeal seems to depend on whether you buy into its big revelations and heightened behavior. The response around it points to a film that is more likely to inspire disbelief, jokes, and secondhand embarrassment than the kind of swooning catharsis its title promises. That doesn’t make it inert, just very specific.

Bottom line

For viewers who like their romance-drama with maximal emotion, messy secrets, and a little bit of glossy absurdity, there may be enough here to latch onto. For everyone else, it sounds like a long sit built around familiar beats, thinly disguised as a devastating family reckoning.

Top Letterboxd reviews

jonathan fujii (2.5★) · 10053 likes

As a non book reader I just have to ask Is Colleen Hoover insane

Amanda the Jedi · 8828 likes

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CaitlinSkye (2.5★) · 8807 likes

what the fuck was up with miller and those lollipops

kat (2★) · 7521 likes

dave franco who forced you to do this movie

zehra (2.5★) · 7230 likes

Oooh look at me i’m Mason Thames. I’ve starred in the live-action version of one of the best animations ever made. I also kissed both Mckenna Grace and Nico Parker. And I'm only 18 years old. Fuck you.

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Topics

romantic drama, family melodrama, grief, betrayal, mother-daughter conflict, young adult, tearjerker, soap opera tone, adaptation, contemporary

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