Sometimes Hollywood waits until a movie has finished filming to tell us who’s in it. Which is funny, because we would have happily started obsessing over the casting earlier. But fine. Keep your secrets. Apparently, the strategy works, because here we are.
And The One Before the One? They got us with the title.
It sounds messy. It sounds romantic. It sounds like someone is about to discover that the person they’ve spent years calling “the one who got away” might have stayed in the past for a reason.
Obviously, we’re interested. A second chance at first love? That sounds dangerous. Also terrifying.
The film follows Steven (Jack Champion), a burned-out Wall Street analyst who returns home for his twentieth high school reunion and somehow finds himself transported back to senior year.
First of all, a twentieth high school reunion sounds frightening enough without being forced to relive the actual experience. We survived it once. Let’s not get ambitious. We’d personally not like a do over – EVER.
But Steven sees an opportunity to rewrite history, particularly when it comes to his lost love, Beth (Grace Van Dien). The complication? The girl he’s spent twenty years remembering as his sou...