- Content: “A Moral Mess”
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What You Need To Know:
REGRETTING YOU has a strong plot about the mother and daughter finding and fighting their way through terrible family secrets and tragedy. There’s also a positive, brief presentation of the Gospel. However, the movie’s marred by illicit teenage sex, an adulterous subplot and godless romantic longing. REGRETTING YOU also has a fair amount of mostly moderate to light foul language, with two strong profanities. The movie’s immoral pagan worldview is mitigated by its positive elements.
Content:
Strong pagan worldview about romance and premarital sex (there’s also an adulterous affair in the plot, but it’s rebuked by other characters, the victims), mitigated by a mother and daughter’s relationship that undergoes some rough patches but ends up being strong, plus a pastor briefly preaches the Gospel during a church funeral service;
About 14 obscenities, one strong profanity using the name of Jesus, one GD profanity, 14 light profanities (mostly OMG);
Woman angrily hits dead husband’s car multiple times when she learns he’s been cheating on her (the muffler ends up being partially detached from the bottom of the car);
A scene of two 17-year-olds in bed together kissing with boy on top, but they abruptly end their sexual activity (girl is still wearing her bra), implied fornication between two adults nearing 40, teenagers agree to hook up sexually at their senior prom in the future, teenage girl jumps into boyfriend’s arms, and they passionately kiss, teenage daughter catches her mother passionately kissing her late aunt’s boyfriend, and wife and boyfriend uncover longtime adulterous affair between her husband and his girlfriend, who’s the wife’s sister (boyfriend starts to believe the late sister’s new baby is not his, but the husband’s);
Upper male nudity;
No alcohol use;
No tobacco use, but two teenagers buy and smoke marijuana; and,
Teenage daughter is sometimes rebellious and acts out against her mother in one short sequence, plus God doesn’t play a role in any of the movie’s romantic or personal relationships.
More Detail:
The movie opens 17 years ago when Morgan and her younger sister, Jenny, are out with their boyfriends, Chris and Jonah, on a beach. Morgan and Jonah were friends before Morgan started dating Chris. Jonah is clearly attracted to Morgan, but Morgan informs him that she’s now pregnant with Chris’ child. So, there’s now no chance of Jonah being with Morgan.
Cut to 17 years later. Morgan and Chris are doing a birthday party barbecue for their daughter, Clara. Morgan’s sister, Jenny, arrives with Jonah and their new baby. Jonah had left town for a long while but began a serious romance with Jenny when he recently returned. Everyone’s there for the birthday party, but Clara, who’s late and won’t answer her phone when Morgan calls.
Clara is attracted to Miller Adams, a cool guy in her school who has a reputation for being a bad boy. Rushing home in her car, Clara sees Miller moving a city limits sign along the road. She gives him a ride home. He tells her that he’s moving the sign so that his favorite pizza place will deliver pizza outside the city limits.
Clara drives Miller home. Miller’s father is in prison, and he lives with his widowed grandfather who has cancer. Clara visits long enough to meet him, then leaves for home.
The next day, Morgan babysits for Jenny and Jonah’s baby. That afternoon, she learns that her husband, Chris, has died in a car accident, and so has her sister, Jenny. Later, at home, Morgan comforts her daughter as she cries over the death of her father and her aunt.
The deaths bring Morgan and Clara closer. However, Clara’s new romance with Miller threatens to tear them apart, especially when Clara catches her mother passionately kissing her dead aunt’s boyfriend and baby daddy, Jonah.
REGRETTING YOU has some laughs and some heavy, tearful tragedy, but the presentation is uneven. Much of the movie is about the relationship between Morgan and her daughter, Clara. Despite their conflicts, their relationship becomes stronger by the movie’s end. There’s also a nice emotional scene where a pastor directly preaches the Gospel at a church funeral.
However, REGRETTING YOU has a strong pagan worldview endorsing godless romance and premarital sex, including teenage sexual activity. God doesn’t play a role in any of the movie’s romantic or personal relationships. There’s also a sublot about a smarmy adulterous affair, but the victims of the adultery rebuke it, so viewers probably will do so too. REGRETTING YOU also has a fair amount of mostly moderate to light foul language, plus two strong profanities. The movie’s immoral pagan worldview about teenage sex and sex before marriage is mitigated by its positive elements. That said, REGRETTING YOU is a moral mess.
