"Unintended" is an odd little flick. Movies like this typically start with our protagonist having mental issues, and the film then slowly unfolds what happened to cause them. This one is different. It starts Lea as a young girl living with her parents in the country. She has a little treehouse hiding place and an older man who is her friend. The family is moving away, and she overhears her parents arguing about getting a divorce. Just before leaving she runs out to get something and ends up in a scuffle with a local boy, and the boy ends up falling down into a hole. Lea runs and tells anyone she can find -- the boy's mother, her parents -- but nobody believes her and eventually she has a little seizure and her parents take her away.
Cut to recent time. Lea, now grown up, has some serious mental issues and cannot totally remember what happened. Her father tries to convince her to go back to their old home with him, and eventually she agrees. Then the first really odd thing happens, when they drive back he, literally, just drops her off in the middle of the road, they hug and he says, "Call me if you get a chance." I mean, I had thought that she was going to stay with him, but OK. So she drives to her old friend's house, and then she gets a complete recollection of what happens and freaks out that she was responsible for the boy's death. Her friend comments, quite reasonably, that if a local boy had gone missing or died, it would have been a big deal and he would have heard about it. But Lea is determined to find out for herself...
As I said, an odd little flick. Showing us what happened in advance sort of dulls what you would normally expect to be the "big reveal" and the inital big mystery is pretty obvious (and, unfortunately, the IMDB credits give it away) so it's good that they sort of "get it out of the way" at the start. But Lea's motivation is hard to really understand, and the major revelations and "surprises" are all about a character that, quite frankly, we don't care about.
The cast is pretty good. Elizabeth Lail is, as usual, charming and vulnerable and really makes us root for her. I also definitely liked that what looked to be one of the forced "romances" never happened. It's s little slow, and not a whole lot happens so if you're looking for an action packed thrilled, look elsewhere. But as a decent low budget flick, there are a lot worse ways to spend 90 minutes.
Cut to recent time. Lea, now grown up, has some serious mental issues and cannot totally remember what happened. Her father tries to convince her to go back to their old home with him, and eventually she agrees. Then the first really odd thing happens, when they drive back he, literally, just drops her off in the middle of the road, they hug and he says, "Call me if you get a chance." I mean, I had thought that she was going to stay with him, but OK. So she drives to her old friend's house, and then she gets a complete recollection of what happens and freaks out that she was responsible for the boy's death. Her friend comments, quite reasonably, that if a local boy had gone missing or died, it would have been a big deal and he would have heard about it. But Lea is determined to find out for herself...
As I said, an odd little flick. Showing us what happened in advance sort of dulls what you would normally expect to be the "big reveal" and the inital big mystery is pretty obvious (and, unfortunately, the IMDB credits give it away) so it's good that they sort of "get it out of the way" at the start. But Lea's motivation is hard to really understand, and the major revelations and "surprises" are all about a character that, quite frankly, we don't care about.
The cast is pretty good. Elizabeth Lail is, as usual, charming and vulnerable and really makes us root for her. I also definitely liked that what looked to be one of the forced "romances" never happened. It's s little slow, and not a whole lot happens so if you're looking for an action packed thrilled, look elsewhere. But as a decent low budget flick, there are a lot worse ways to spend 90 minutes.