The awkward tension is thick, but the ladies put on a friendly face for Lily and David. Tessa has joint custody and resides in the same town (though she has not found a new beau).
And then she meets David’s adorable nine year-old daughter Lily (Isabella Kai Rice) and her mother, David’s former wife Tessa (Katherine Heigl). Julia’s still a bit on edge, seeing flashes of her abusive ex-boyfriend, who’s now out of the slammer with the restraining order about to expire (she’s not told David about that and the fact that she received psychiatric support). She’ll edit manuscripts at his opulent two-story home while he runs his beer-brewing company (started after he left the world of high finance). After her going-away bash, she piles everything into her cute lil’ car and drives to a bucolic Southern California burg where she meets her fiance David Connover (Geoff Stults). To see just how she got in this mess, the story flashes back six months, to Julia’s last day of work at a San Francisco-based publishing house. Ms B is in big trouble as her accusers show her loads of bagged evidence. We first meet a battered and bruised Julia Banks (Rosario Dawson) as she is interrogated by a pair of somber stoic police detectives. Perhaps as a way to mark the 30th anniversary of FATAL ATTRACTION, movie-goers are now treated to a “female-centric” take on torture and turmoil mixed with thwarted desire and homicide in UNFORGETTABLE. Then the trip goes from hearts and flowers to demented nannies and boiled bunny rabbits. The fly in the ointment (or the more crass “t%#d in the punch bowl) is the more than a little unhinged ex. But this journey to a happy ending can’t be a smooth one. Time for another cinematic trek to the land of “second chance” romance, where those wounded lovers get another try at happiness in a picture-perfect little town complete with a cozy home (fireplace included, of course) and an adorable moppet.
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