The Way We Were: A Love Rewritten (2025)
Genre: Romantic Drama | Second-Chance Love Story | Contemporary Period Piece
Directed by: Ava DuVernay
Starring: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, David Oyelowo, Thandiwe Newton, and Regé-Jean Page
Runtime: 2h 11min
Rating: PG-13
What if the story didn’t end the first time around?
Twenty years after a passionate college romance ended in heartbreak, Clara James, a best-selling novelist living in New York, returns to her hometown in coastal Massachusetts for the first time in decades. She’s there to settle her late aunt’s estate—but what she doesn’t expect is to cross paths with Elias Monroe, the man who inspired her first—and only—true love story.
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Back then, Clara and Elias were inseparable—an ambitious writer and an idealistic law student dreaming of building a life together. But when tragedy struck and choices were made in the name of pride and survival, they went their separate ways without a goodbye.
Now, both older and marked by the lives they’ve led, Clara and Elias find themselves thrown together again—by fate, unfinished conversations, and a hidden manuscript Clara discovers in her aunt’s attic: a story she began writing when they were young… and never finished.
As the past and present collide, secrets resurface, old flames reignite, and the question hangs in the air:
Can love, once lost, truly be rewritten?
