
“Regretting You” doesn’t offer any big surprises, even though it feels like it might. The film starts around 2006, with a group of high school friends who clearly don’t all fit together. Morgan is dating Chris, but Jonah is in love with her, even though he’s with Morgan’s sister, Jenny. Morgan and Jonah prefer to avoid drinking and spend a lot of time together, while Jenny and Chris are the life of the party. However, Morgan is pregnant, which seems to lock her future with Chris. (The story is set in a small North Carolina town where everyone knows everyone, and teenage lives feel predetermined.) The film then jumps ahead 17 years. Morgan and Chris are still together, and their daughter, Clara, is now a high school senior. Jonah and Jenny are married with a new baby – though their high school romance didn’t last, as Jonah suddenly left town shortly after the beginning of the film, but he’s now returned. Everything appears perfect, but of course, it isn’t.