Movie: It Ends With Us (2024) Caution Spoiler Alert

 

It Ends with Us

Came out; 2024

Time; 2 hours 10 Minutes

Watched: Netflix

Rated: PG-13 for domestic violence, sexual content and some strong language

IMDB Rating; 6.3/10

Rotten Tomatoes:

Tomato Meter 54%

Popcorn Meter 88%

Caution; Spoiler Alert

Staring;

Blake Lively as Lily Bloom

Justin Baldoni as Ryle Kincaid

Jenny Slate as Allysa

Hasan Minhaj as Marshall

Brandon Sklenar as Atlas Corrigan

Kevin McKidd as Andrew Bloom

Amy Morton as Jenny Bloom

Story Line;

IT ENDS WITH US, the first Colleen Hoover novel adapted for the big screen, tells the compelling story of Lily Bloom, a woman who overcomes a traumatic childhood to embark on a new life in Boston and chase a lifelong dream of opening her own business. A chance meeting with charming neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid sparks an intense connection, but as the two fall deeply in love, Lily begins to see sides of Ryle that remind her of her parents' relationship. When Lily's first love, Atlas Corrigan, suddenly reenters her life, her relationship with Ryle is upended, and Lily realizes she must learn to rely on her own strength to make an impossible choice for her future

Thoughts:

There was tons of controversy around this movie when it was first released, I followed it a little.

I've never heard of this book, this movie though was really good.

The DV starts small, the way it's filmed, you don't see it right away.

I found everything to be well filmed, put together, great cast and story line.

CAUTION; Spoiler Alert

Lily Bloom delivers a eulogy at her father, Andrew's, funeral. From the podium, she announces that she will list five of her favorite things about him. After standing in silence for several seconds, she walks off.

Back home in Boston, she meets neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid. They flirt until he is called away for emergency surgery. While renovating the building that will become her flower shop, Lily meets Allysa. She hires Allysa and learns that she is Ryle's sister.

At Allysa's birthday party, Ryle tells Lily that he is infatuated with her. They kiss, but she declines to sleep with him, saying that he is only interested in casual sex, whereas she wants a relationship. She spends the night at his apartment and accepts his invitation to date him the next morning. Ryle convinces her to introduce him to her mother, Jenny, at a new restaurant called Root. There, Lily discovers that the owner and head chef is her former boyfriend, Atlas Corrigan.

Flashbacks reveal that Andrew had physically abused Jenny and that Lily had found Atlas living in an empty house next door after he had run away from his mother's abusive boyfriend. They fell in love, and upon finding them in bed together, Andrew severely beat Atlas. Atlas joined the Marines.

One morning, Ryle burns his hand while cooking breakfast for Lily. When she tries to help, he slaps her, but he immediately apologizes, insisting that it was an accident. While Ryle, Lily, Allysa and her husband Marshall are dining at Root, Atlas notices Lily's bruised eye and Ryle's bandaged hand. He confronts Lily, imploring her to leave Ryle. When Ryle finds them together, he assumes the worst and a physical altercation breaks out, culminating in Atlas ejecting Ryle.

Atlas visits Lily's shop, gives her his phone number and tells her to call him if she ever needs to. Lily confides in Ryle that her father abused her mother. While visiting Allysa and Marshall in a hospital after the birth of their daughter, Lily accepts Ryle's proposal of marriage. Soon after, they elope. Ryle later finds Atlas's phone number hidden in Lily's phone case. During an ensuing argument, Ryle pushes Lily down the stairs. He later claims that she fell and that he tried to catch her.

Atlas is interviewed by a local magazine, telling them that he named his restaurant in Lily's honor. In a jealous rage, Ryle tries to rape Lily. She escapes and seeks out Atlas, who takes her to a hospital, where she discovers that she is pregnant. Lily stays with Atlas for a few days, during which time he reveals that he had planned to kill himself on the night she found him, but that she had inspired him to carry on living.

When Lily opens up to Allysa about Ryle's treatment of her, Allysa reveals that, as a child, Ryle had accidentally shot and killed their brother, Emerson, which led to unresolved trauma manifesting as uncontrollable bouts of rage. She insists that Lily does not take Ryle back. Lily moves out, but Ryle implores her to return, promising to seek help and stop the abuse.

Lily gives birth to a daughter, whom they name Emerson. She tells Ryle that she wants a divorce, and he initially resists, but eventually agrees when she asks him how he would react if their daughter were to be abused by a partner. Lily hopes that she has broken the cycle of abuse in her family and tells her daughter, 'It ends with us.'

Months later, Lily and Jenny take Emerson to visit Andrew's grave, where Lily leaves a blank eulogy on his headstone. She meets Atlas at the farmers' market. She tells him that she is no longer with Ryle, and they smile at each other.