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In fact, Cheryl Ladd’s casting as Tessa’s hyper-critical stage mom announces De Novi’s familiarity with the subgenre sandbox she’s playing in, as Unforgettable is no doubt an R-rated descendant of the TV Thriller Queen’s more lurid output. Heigl does her damndest to try and cement a new erotic thriller icon, hovering somewhere between Rebecca De Mornay’s lethal caretaker in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and Glenn Close’s jilted one night stand from Fatal Attraction. That’d be the easy answer, but Tessa just keeps coming on so strong.

Could it be her own nightmare ex (Simon Kassianides)? That restraining order Julia took out ages ago recently expired, and now she can’t quit thinking back to when he last hit her. Upsetting crank phone calls start pouring in, and Julia’s phone mysteriously disappears. The mother shows up unannounced at dinner when David isn’t home, and practically hisses “you don’t have anything organic, do you?” while going through Julia’s cabinets. The door’s wide pen for a gender flipped companion piece to Peele’s transgressive horror megahit, but instead we’re treated to some tense yet unremarkable shenanigans as Tessa feels David’s new flame closing in on her territory. The problem is, Julia’s race is never commented upon by anyone in her new borough, and her best friend back home (her “Rod”, if we’re going to continue down this comparative path), is a chirpy hipster white girl (Whitney Cummings – yeah, that one) who merely warns her to “watch out for herself”.

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It’s a setup rife for social commentary, as all these white eyes are now trained on Julia’s dark skin as the jilted prom queen plots against this nefarious Other. To make matters worse, Tessa’s got quite the problem letting go. So now everyone knows Julia, the big city book editor he’s decided to replace the former princess with. Everybody in this small California town knows Tessa, as she and David were always the hot item at any social function. David’s ex-wife is Tessa (Heigl), a preening, perfectly manicured ice queen who is cordial, but makes it clear who’s boss.

Only she’s not just going to meet the family for the first time, she’s practically inheriting a daughter (Isabella Kai Rice), which means the kid’s bitter mother comes along with her. Julia Banks (Rosario Dawson) is a woman of color entering the white suburban domain of her future fiancée, David (Geoff Stults). Neither production could’ve known this when they rolled film and chose release dates so close to each other, but we’re here now and there’s nothing we can about that. The story structure of Christina Hodson and David Johnson’s screenplay closely mirrors that of Jordan Peele’s Get Out. What’s most frustrating about Unforgettable is an element that’s truly no fault of its own. It’s a real shame, because one can’t help but wonder what Unforgettable would look like were it helmed by an Adrian Lyne or Paul Verhoeven, as there’s certainly room with this script to produce a slice of subversive softcore smut. There’s a flat Movie of the Week quality to the way each scene is staged, even when the chaste sex acts depicted start to slightly steam up the frame. Unfortunately, it’s directed (by longtime producer, Denise De Novi, making her feature debut) with a pedestrian disregard for anything resembling personal vision. The film momentarily embraces a measurable level of lunacy near the end, and Katherine Heigl’s attempt at remolding herself into an erotic thriller femme fatale is admirable. And the bad news also is: Unforgettable is not good trash. The bad news is: Unforgettable is not a good movie.

Unforgettable is a real “bad news/bad news” proposition.