A movie which tries to make you cry but barely makes you care

REGRETTING YOU Direction: Josh Boone Cast: Allison Williams, Dave Franco, Mckenna Grace, Mason Thames, Scott Eastwood, Willa Fitzgerald Rating: ✶

- Samarth Goyal

After the success of It Ends With Us, Colleen Hoover's novels have become Hollywood's latest obsession. Riding that wave, Regretting You arrives with high expectations, directed by Josh Boone, the filmmaker behind The Fault in Our Stars (2014). Despite an impressive cast, Regretting You never quite settles into the story it wants to tell.

The film opens in the past, showing a group of high-schoolers navigating love and difficult choices. Morgan (Allison Williams) is dating Chris (Scott Eastwood) when she discovers she’s pregnant. Her sister Jenny (Willa Fitzgerald) is with Jonah (Dave Franco), who secretly has feelings for Morgan. These tangled relationships set the stage for everything that follows.