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- 2018
- PG
- Roadside Attractions
- 1 h 48 m
- 2018
- PG
- Roadside Attractions
- 1 h 48 m
Summary Country music super-star Liam Page (Alex Roe) left his bride, Josie (Jessica Rothe), at the altar choosing fame and fortune instead. However, Liam never got over Josie, his one true love, nor did he ever forget his Southern roots in the small community where he was born and raised. When he unexpectedly returns to his hometown for the fun...
Directed By: Bethany Ashton Wolf
Written By: Heidi McLaughlin, Bethany Ashton Wolf
- 2018
- PG
- Roadside Attractions
- 1 h 48 m
- 2018
- PG
- Roadside Attractions
- 1 h 48 m
Forever My Girl
36
6.0
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Summary Country music super-star Liam Page (Alex Roe) left his bride, Josie (Jessica Rothe), at the altar choosing fame and fortune instead. However, Liam never got over Josie, his one true love, nor did he ever forget his Southern roots in the small community where he was born and raised. When he unexpectedly returns to his hometown for the fun...
Directed By: Bethany Ashton Wolf
Written By: Heidi McLaughlin, Bethany Ashton Wolf
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
36
11% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
33% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
56% Negative
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
36
11% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
33% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
56% Negative
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
The story is resolved a bit too easily, but that works for the world of the film, which is sanded down, buffed out, a bucolic, "Steel Magnolias"-inspired fantasy land of wide front porches, charming flower shops and the mega-famous rock stars that wander into them.
The movie also trumpets hometown values, and makes fun of the way Liam’s wealth and fame have insulated him from simple pleasures of small-town life (underlined by director Bethany Ashton Wolf’s cozy visual presentation). The movie pokes fun at his materialism, when it’s not indulging in it.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 26 User Ratings
6.0
62% Positive
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
8% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
31% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 26 User Ratings
6.0
62% Positive
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
8% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
31% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
It is a shame that in the entertainment industry politics must be brought into everything. When it comes to professional critics in particular, their reviews do not necessarily reflect the quality of the movie in question; just how much they were paid or how much it lines up with liberal/atheist ideology.
So is it any wonder that films that promote modern-day pederasty (Call Me By Your Name), self-destructive lifestyles (The Fantastic Woman) and "systemic racism" (The Big Slick) receive rave reviews while films about "Christian values" (Hacksaw Ridge) and conservative ideologies (Forever My Girl) are rather hushed aside or negatively critiqued to oblivion? What should also be questioned is why the films critics love so much are easily forgotten and do not even make the top 250 films list when the films they despise or tend to ignore are the ones that are remembered for a long time?
Do not allow politics and liberal bias to ruin your tastes or what you would enjoy; simply see this film for yourself and enjoy.
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Forever My Girl is a bad movie, pure and simple. And pure and simple is just how writer and director Bethany Ashton Wolf likes it.
Still, there is more pleasure to be had in the dwindling returns of CMT's “Nashville” than in this country soap-opera.
The overarching problem is pacing and dramatic tension.
The director, Bethany Ashton Wolf, who adapted the screenplay from, yes, a romance novel by Heidi McLaughlin, can concoct some Hallmark-greeting-card-quality shots, but has little flair for piecing them together. The lead actors are very pretty.
It’s a poorly made film, with rough edits, distracting staging and plot contrivances that can be predicted to the moment.
Forever My Girl Is a wonderful movie about love forgiveness and family. Alex Roe as Liam Page and Jessica Rothe as Josie felt like they had real chemistry and showed a true connection. The star of the movie was Abby Ryder Fortson. She is an amazing young actress , she lights up the screen! I love the humor she brought to the movie! Forever My Girl is a great movie, great acting, can't wait to see it again. It was well placed and very realistic.I loved the ending to the movie, a perfect fit.
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Great Movie, about someone Lost between Love and A childhood Dream. Very Wholesome movie for the Whole Family.
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The best thing I can say about Forever My Girl is that it exceeded my expectations. Granted, my expectations were that I would want to gouge my eyes out with a rusty spoon while watching it, but still, it flew high above that very low bar!
By far the strongest aspect of this movie is the acting. By the standards of sappy romance novel adaptations, these performances are near Oscar-worthy. The actors really do the best that they can with the project they were given, and their emotion shows it and it’s admirable, even enjoyable to watch.
Aside from that, however, this film offers pretty much nothing worthwhile. The plot is something that has been seen hundreds of times before in low-budget romance films and never deviated from predictability. It never provides any story arcs; there’s never a feeling of any rising action. The plot builds and builds to...nothing, really. The climax is based on a clumsily inserted ordinary event and is resolved instantaneously and **** movie ends. This is dull at best and unforgivably lazy at worst.
Speaking of laziness, the dialogue proves to be as forced, predictable, and cheesy as one could come to expect from a movie like this. Aside from a couple actually funny lines, there is nothing surprising, nothing new, nothing that builds tension, there’s just nothing here.
Aside from acting, there appears to be little effort put into the production of this film. The transitions between scenes are standard things like fades to black with a fade back in and it’s awkward. The camerawork is weird, focusing on odd things and not on the subject at some points. The soundtrack is unfitting at parts and that further contributes to the awkwardness. The story feels like it was changed several times during production with some plot points shoehorned in randomly. It’s a mess.
Forever My Girl becomes a movie that will surely be loved by fans of Nicolas Sparks films, but everyone else need not bother with it.
Story: 1
Acting: 8
Script: 3.5
Visuals/Sound: 2.5
Entertainment Value: 4
OVERALL SCORE: 3.8/10
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What's a romantic film that deserves to have an extremely low budget and not go any higher than that? What's a romantic film that begins to rehash clichés seen in other romantic films of yesteryear? What's a romantic film that all the crew that worked on it deserved to make a better movie? To answer all these three questions, it's obvious to know the answer to all of this because the review's placement is always the first thing noticeable about reviews. Forever My Girl deserves to be one complete lengthy YouTube video with an extremely low budget put to it. Seeing that as a major YouTube video instead of a major theatrical film could have made Forever My Girl a lot better than what it is even if it doesn't change anything aesthetic which I can hardly see here. Romance has been overused a lot recently and, for a moviegoer who expects to see more, that's no good for those who are not into romance or just noticed how stereotypical it just became. Sure not all romance films are bad and deserved awful treatment, but I'm just saying that films like these are what makes romance look bad. Technically because this is a film released in January, it would make sense for people to create an instant skip for Forever My Girl but just for the heck of people who still go watch movies in theaters during dump months, I consider skipping this one unless you literally are into romance which I literally hope not after this.
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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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