The Vow

                                                                    The Vow

Leo Collins (Channing Tatum) and his wife Paige (Rachel McAdams) have been at the theatre watching a show.  On their way home, Leo stops at a stop sign when Paige decides to unbuckle her seat belt and leans over to kiss Leo. Out of nowhere a truck goes straight into the back of their car which results in Paige crashing through the windscreen.  Paige is unconscious and they are both rushed straight to hospital. The film then shows scenes of when the couple first met and when they got married with Leo doing a voice over talking about special moment that happen that help in finding who we are.

When Paige wakes up, she has no idea what has happened and has no memory of the past few years as she thinks Leo is her doctor.  Paige’s parents Bill and Rita have lots of money and a big house.  When they find out about their daughter they rush to the hospital to visit her where they meet Leo for the first time.  Paige is confused and cannot understand how Leo has never met her parents if they are married and she finds it even stranger that Leo did not know the answer either.  Page is also shocked to realise she has left law school, broke up with her fiancé Jeremy and no longer talks to any of her family or friends. Her parents decide they are taking are back home which Paige is happy about but as she is about to leave Leo plays her a voice mail she has left him on his phone.  Paige hears how happy she sounds so decides to go back home with Leo, hoping it will help get her memory back.  Leo thinks it would be a good surprise to have a welcome home party with all of Paige’s friends but she gets upset as she has no idea who anyone is.

The next morning while Leo is at work, Paige decides to go out a walk.  She ends up going to a café which turns out to be her regular but she cannot remember what she usually orders and cannot remember how to get back home. Paige has her phone on her but the only number she can remember is her mum and dad’s house so she phones them.  Her parents invite Paige and Leo over for dinner later that evening. It is clear that Leo does not fit in with her family or friends.  Leo is desperate to help Paige get her memory back but Paige is more interested in why she left law school and Jeremy. 

Paige’s sister Gwen (Jessica McNamee) is getting married soon so Paige decides to stay at her parent’s house to help out with the wedding plans.  Leo asks Paige on a date and takes her to the same place they had their first date and she enjoyed it just as much as she did the first time.  Back home, Paige’s dad is trying his best to persuade Leo to divorce his daughter which is the last thing Leo wants but realises it might be for the best as Paige just wants her old life back.

Paige re-joins law school and starts living her old life again.  At a local store, Paige meets an old friend she hasn’t seen for a while called Diane.  Diane had not heard about the accident so she apologies to Paige for having a brief relationship with her father which sets bells ringing in Paige’s head about why she left her family.  Paige rushes home to confront her mother who tells her that she decided to stay with her father for all the things he had done right instead of leaving him for one wrong act.  Paige then turns to Leo to find out why he never told her about her father.  Leo replied by telling he wanted to earn her love instead of driving her away from her parents

While sitting in class at law school, Paige starts sketching in her book, depicting why she first left law school.  Paige continues her interest in art and slowly she returns to drawing and sculpting.  Jeremy hopes him and Paige will get back together after telling her he has finished with his girlfriend for her, but Paige rejects him stating she needs to know what life would be like without him.  As the months pass, Paige finds the menu card on which she had written her wedding vows and gets very emotional over it. The film ends with Paige finding Leo at their regular café which is closed due to the snow so they walk off together to a new place.