Regretting You (2025)
Based on Colleen Hoover’s novel, the film follows Morgan Grant and her daughter Clara as a devastating accident exposes a shocking betrayal and long-buried family secrets. As grief and resentment strain their relationship, both are forced to confront painful truths about love, loss, and each other.
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Intro
Seventeen-year-old Morgan Davidson discovers she is pregnant by her boyfriend, Chris Grant, and confides in Jonah Sullivan, her sister Jenny’s boyfriend and Chris’s best friend, who secretly loves her; Morgan chooses Chris and, years later, they are married with a teenage daughter, Clara, while Jenny and Jonah have recently reunited and have an infant son, Elijah.
Turning Point 1
On Morgan’s birthday, Clara meets Miller Adams while he is moving the city limits sign, helps him, and drives him home; they discover they both want film careers, and Clara begins to like him even though Miller initially has a girlfriend. At the same time, Morgan privately warns Clara not to interfere in Miller’s relationship, and when Morgan and Jonah speak alone, Morgan insists it is too late for them and that Clara must come first.
Turning Point 2
Clara later learns Miller’s girlfriend broke up with him because of his growing attraction to Clara, while the adults’ lives collapse when Chris and Jenny die in a car accident that is initially treated as a tragic coincidence. Morgan and Jonah quickly suspect an affair, and during Chris’s funeral Clara is caught smoking with Miller, deepening the conflict between mother and daughter.
Turning Point 3
Morgan and Jonah trace Chris’s car to a hotel parking lot and confirm that Chris and Jenny were having an affair; Morgan lashes out by beating the car and then hides the damage from Clara. Clara demands answers about the damaged car and why Morgan did not join Chris’s and Jenny’s funerals, but Morgan refuses to explain, leaving Clara feeling excluded and betrayed.
Turning Point 4
Clara becomes more open with Miller, and the two continue their connection while Morgan and Jonah are left to process the affair and their unresolved feelings for each other. Meanwhile, Jonah worries that Chris may have been Elijah’s biological father, which adds another layer of grief and suspicion to the family fallout.
Turning Point 5
Jonah gives Elijah to Morgan the next day because he suspects Chris might be the child’s father, but Clara confronts Jonah and convinces him not to abandon his parenting role; Morgan and Clara agree to support him. Later, Miller tells Clara he fears leaving for college will leave his grandfather without care, and after moving the city limits sign again, Clara and Miller kiss, while Clara also helps her friend Lexie connect with Miller’s friend Efren.
Ending
By the end, the families begin to stabilize through painful honesty: Morgan and Clara move toward healing after the affair’s revelation, Jonah continues raising Elijah with their support, and Clara embraces her future with Miller as the two commit to each other despite the losses and betrayals that reshaped their lives.
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