The premise of the movie is a man named Leo (Channing Tatum) who embarks on an emotional journey after Paige, his wife, (Rachel McAdams) loses her memory in a horrible car accident, in which she was not wearing her seat belt. When she finally wakes up from the coma, Paige can only recall things that had happened to her from the time she was a little girl to the time she was beginning law school at Northwestern University. What she cannot seem to remember is that she had a falling out with her friends and family, dropped out of law school, moved to Chicago, began attending art school, and married Leo.

    Of course, this is a crushing thought. That your wife has completely forgotten who she was and now believes that she is someone completely different must be devastating. When Paige first sees Leo, she thinks that he is her doctor at the hospital. After the accident, she cannot seem to get used to the idea that she is no longer the girl that she was.
    That seems like the beginning for an interesting story, but that was my problem with the movie, the plot, specifically the plot organization. The car accident happened within the first five minutes of the movie, with the audience having no knowledge of just how deeply in love the two were. All we know is that they are married. We don’t know who they are, where they’re from, or how long they’ve been together. 
    Without any build up to the accident, it is hard to truly understand how much passion the two have with each other until after the accident has already happened. Most of the movie is about Leo attempting to make Paige fall in love with him again, whereas I expected half the movie to be about him losing her and the other half about him getting her back, so I was pretty disappointed.
    Personally, I love Rachel McAdams. She was fantastic in The Notebook and her role in Mean Girls as Regina George will go down in history. She did a great job playing a counterpart to Channing Tatum, who is most definitely a sight for sore eyes. They had definite chemistry in the film, which made their romance completely convincing. However, the whole idea of the flashback set up of the movie made it frustrating to appreciate the relationship.
    I like the idea that the movie was based upon, and the tidbit at the end about the actual couple was adorable. I appreciate that the movie was based on a true story, but I don’t think that the production did the events justice.