There’s a very big reminder of “him” — Scotty Landry (Rudy Pankow), killed in a car accident — right at the start of this dreary tearjerker, but Kenna (Maika Monroe) jumps out of her ride, kicks it to the ground and steals it. “He hated memorials,” she tells us in voiceover, as if anybody really would want a makeshift wooden cross and some wilted gas station flowers to mark their last and final resting place. Kenna is coming home after five years in the slammer, back to “where it all went wrong to see if I can get something right,” an indication of the quality of the dialogue in the latest Colleen Hoover adaptation.
Renting an empty room, Kenna wonders to herself whether she’ll ever be absolved of her wrongdoing, musing, “Maybe then they’ll let me see her.” Although it takes a good 20 minutes to be revealed, it
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