The Vow

" I vow to love you, and no matter what challenges might carry us apart, we will always find a way back to each other."

Directed by Michael Sucsy

2012

Viewed February 2012

This is a wonderfully sappy love story about love overcoming all odds, even memory loss. Paige and Leo are very happily married and decide that it's about time to start trying for a baby. On their way home one night they end up in a car accident and Paige is thrown from the car (Never unbuckle your seat belt even if its just to give your husband a kiss! You shouldn't be making out at every stop sign!) and ends up in a coma. When she comes to she can't remember anything about her time with Leo and doesn't even know who he is. She thinks that she is still engaged to someone else (who has a really fun time pissing Leo off by flirting with Paige) and she doesn't remember why she got so angry with her parents that she hadn't spoken to them in years. Leo goes out of his way to try and win Paige back and make her refall in love with him. This was a decent chick movie and apparantly it is based on a real story (there's even a picture of the real couple at the end!). I loved all of the sappy love quotes that were in it. I usually love Rachel McAdams who plays Paige, but I found her to be kind of a jerk. I understand that she lost her memory, but she is shown proof of her love for Leo and their marriage, yet she is so self absorbed that she doesn't even care how hurt Leo is about all of this, all she is thinking about is herself. I know it may have been weird or awkward not knowing him but knowing that you're supposed to be in love with him, but I felt like she could've been a little bit more compassionate. Her parents were very cookie cutter rigid rich people who think that Leo is a bottom feeder and therefore does everything in their power to keep Paige away from him, so that was really unoriginal. It did make for a good date movie though. B-