Regretting You looked awful from the trailer, yet with Odeon’s Limitless I try to see as much as possible, but still… will I regret watching this?
As we’re introduced to two friendly couples – Morgan (Allison Williams – M3GAN 2.0) & Chris (Scott Eastwood – Fast X), and Jonah (Dave Franco – Together) and Jenny (Willa Fitzgerald – Strange Darling) – Jonah’s clearly in love with Morgan, who’s pregnant with Scott’s child-to-be, so Jonah’s a bit late, there.
But then events move on 17 years, with none of them aging a jot, except for Mckenna Grace‘s (Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire) Clara, as she’s now grown up at 16, and starting to learn to drive. She also fancies Miller (Mason Thames – How To Train Your Dragon, Black Phone 2), because he’s the hot lad in school, but he has a girlfriend… Oh, what a tangled web we weave!
However, when Jonah and Morgan, separately, turn up to the hospital, learning their other halves have been in a car accident, only to find that they’re both dead, this leads them to figure the pair were doing the horizontal mambo.
Well, since the living clearly fancy each other, what’s the problem?
Beyond that, as Miller and Clara get to know each other, we see them settling down together to watch Clueless, even though when the camera was not facing the TV, the studio’s theme playing at the start was Disney, not Paramount. Plus, Clara is shown coughing loudly at inhaling her first joint. I never coughed like that at Uni. Lightweight!
There’s also something about Miller moving a street limit sign in order to get free pizza that I didn’t grasp, given that wouldn’t work in reality when delivery companies use GPS.
Oh, and Clancy Brown (Highlander, John Wick Chapter 4) is completely wasted as Miller’s sick granddad.
Also, during the trailer, Morgan is seen telling Clara, “There’s a lot I wish I had done differently, but I’ll never spend one second regretting you”… even though that is NOT in the film, itself! (unless I felt into a catatonic state during that scene, which is possible)
As an aside, several cast members, including Grace and Williams, are given the meaningless title of “executive producer” in the creits, which can mean almost anything, and doesn’t even mean you were doing any work on-set!
Overall, though, in a tale of two deaths, I can’t think of a single redeeming feature in the entire 115 minutes of Regretting You, which comes from Collen Hoover, who brought us the painfully shit It Ends With Us, and will soon do the same for Reminders of Him, which looks just as bad from the trailer and is released in cinemas in March 2026.
Then again, given that just before Jenny’s death, she had a baby with Jonah, and he’s the best actor in all of this!
NOTE: There are no mid, nor post-credits scenes.
Regretting You is in cinemas now, and is available to pre-order on DVD.
You can also buy the novel in paperback.
Detailed specs:
Cert: 
Running time: 115 minutes
Release date: October 24th 2025
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Cinema: Odeon Trafford Centre
Rating: 0/10
Director: Josh Boone
Producers: Brunson Green, Robert Kulzer, Anna Todd, Flavia Viotti
Novel: Colleen Hoover
Screenplay: Susan McMartin
Music: Nate Walcott
Cast:
Morgan Grant: Allison Williams
Clara Grant: Mckenna Grace
Jonah Sullivan: Dave Franco
Miller Adams: Mason Thames
Chris Grant: Scott Eastwood
Jenny Davidson: Willa Fitzgerald
Hank ‘Gramps’ Adams Sr: Clancy Brown
Lexie: Sam Morelos
Efren: Ethan Costanilla
Hank Adams Jr.: Luke Pierre Roness
Pastor: Daniel Smith
ER Desk Attendant: Alicia Cuthbertson
Tonya: Marcelle LeBlanc
Doctor: Kurt Yue
Elijah: William Burnham Simmons, Ryan Conner Simmons
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