REMINDERS OF HIM

Name: REMINDERS OF HIM
Item: REMINDERS OF HIM
Author: Review

"Romance Over Development"

Family Content: -2 Extreme caution for older teenagers and adults.

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What You Need To Know:

REMINDERS OF HIM is a romantic drama about Kenna, who falls in love with Scotty, and later loses him in a car accident. Kenna serves time in prison for driving under the influence and leaving the scene. She learns she’s pregnant, but the authorities place the baby with Scotty’s parents. Kenna leaves prison and tries to reunite with her daughter, but the grandparents refuse contact. Kenna desperately tries to meet her daughter while she also meets and falls for her dead boyfriend’s best friend.

REMINDERS OF HIM has a unique storyline, with some good performances, but it fails to execute the story well enough to hit its emotional beats. The movie spends more time with romance than actual character development. Also, the final resolution arrives too easily and needs more drama. The movie stresses hope and compassion. Also, the female lead appears hopeful, persistent and selfless. However, REMINDERS OF HIM contains a fair amount of foul language, and some lewd content and marijuana use. So, it’s unsuitable for younger audiences and warrants extreme caution.

Content:

(B, Ro, LL, V, S, N, A, DD, M): Dominant worldview: Light moral worldview stresses hope and compassion, and a woman tries reunite with her daughter after being in prison, but the movie mostly focuses on woman’s romantic life; Foul language: 16 obscenities (including two “f” words), one strong profanity that uses the name of Jesus Christ, one GD profanity, two light profanities, and one instance of vomiting;

Violence:

Two characters suffer a car accident together, one character punches another multiple times in the face, an examination room shows dead body;

Sex:

One scene implies fornication between an unmarried man and woman in one scene plus scenes show them kissing passionately, woman has a baby in prison before that with the man’s best friend, who dies in a traffic accident;

Nudity:

Some upper male nudity, two instances of upper back female nudity, rear male nudity when couple goes skinny dipping, and female character in prison shown wearing a bra with wet spots due to excess lactation;

Alcohol Use:

Much of the movie takes place in a bar, so alcohol appears often, plus two characters share a beer, but no drunkenness occurs;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

No tobacco use, but two characters smoke marijuana out of bong an eat edible cannabis gummies;

Miscellaneous Immorality:

Some characters lie and a woman removes memorial cross from the side of the road because the man who died there hated memorials.

More Detail:

REMINDERS OF HIM is a romantic drama about Kenna, who falls in love with Scotty. After a terrible car accident kills Scotty, Kenna faces imprisonment for leaving the scene and driving under the influence. Right into her sentence, Kenna learns she’s pregnant with Scotty’s child but unfortunately can’t meet the baby after giving birth. Now under the guardianship of Scotty’s parents, the child, Deim, grows up not knowing anything about her mother.

When Kenna finishes her sentence earlier than expected, she returns to the town where it all happened to restart her life and meet Deim. However, the grandparents refuse to allow it.

At first, Scotty’s best friend, Ledger, sides with them, not actually having met Kenna before Scotty’s death. However, when he gets to know Kenna, he realizes she isn’t who everyone thought she was, and she tells a different story on what took place that night of the car accident. Their relationship slowly shifts from misunderstanding to attraction. How will Kenna navigate trying to meet her daughter and falling in love with her dead boyfriend’s best friend at the same time?

Sadly, REMINDERS OF HIM fails to give viewers a satisfying answer. While the movie offers an interesting premise, it does not execute the story well enough to hit the emotional beats.

Also, the resolution between Kenna and Scotty’s parents feels effortless. The audience is never shown the parents taking full responsibility for their unjust treatment against Kenna. It’s understandable that the parents grieved their son’s death and sought someone to blame, but to allow the person their son loved to go to prison, never hearing her side of the story, and forbidding Kenna to meet her daughter remains extremely wrong.

The majority of the story focuses on romance rather than the narrative, stealing much needed time for characters to be fully fleshed out. The actors are extremely talented and gave a great performance. Sadly, the cast, great sets, and amazing cinematography couldn’t cover up the movie’s average writing.

REMINDERS OF HIM exhibits biblical values of hope and compassion. For example, Kenna hears from Ivy, a fellow prisoner and the only time we see Kenna in prison, to not give up hope of seeing her daughter. “You can either live in sadness, or die in it,” she tells her.

Throughout the whole movie, Kenna remains hopeful, persistent and selfless. These qualities match biblical teachings and characters. However, profanity, language, violence, sexual content, and alcohol and drug abuse make it unsuitable for younger audiences.