Waiting for Forever Information

Waiting for Forever is a 2010 American romance film directed by James Keach, starring Rachel Bilson and Tom Sturridge. The film had a limited theatrical release beginning February 4, 2011. It was shot in Salt Lake City and Ogden, Utah.

Plot

Emma (Rachel Bilson) and Will (Tom Sturridge) are best friends since childhood; they lost touch a long time ago"?as far as she knows. She is back in their hometown, because her father is sick and dying. Emma hasn't just come home to be with her father, but she is also trying to leave behind her complicated love life and career as a TV actress. She has a strained relationship with her mother. While a man and a woman are giving Will a ride back home, Will tells them the story of how he fell in love with Emma and how she was with him when his parents died. Upon arrival he visits his brother Jim, a banker, who believes Will has mental problems because of the death of their parents that took place when Will was very young.

Will stays with his childhood friend Joe. While Will was practicing how he is going to tell Emma how he feels about her, Joe comes as Will tells him that he is going to announce his love for her today or tomorrow. However, Emma's boyfriend follows her home because he wants to reconcile, staying at a local hotel.

Will and Emma spend the day together, reminiscing on times passed. She admits her unfaithfulness to her boyfriend, who wants to marry her. She discovers Will has been following her everywhere and asks him to promise that he will stop following her. Will agrees and leaves town.

It is revealed that Emma's boyfriend has murdered the man with whom Emma was having an affair, although she is still not aware of this. When her boyfriend finds out that Will has been following Emma, he calls the LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department) and claims it was Will who committed the murder.

Will decides to hitchhike away from his hometown. On his way he is arrested by the highway patrol and taken to jail. Jim bails him and takes him to the airport. Will runs away to San Francisco, leaving behind money to make up for the bail his brother paid.

Emma is shaken with the news of her lover's death, and gets a letter from Will proving that he wasn't in LA when the murder was committed. She gets her boyfriend arrested.

Emma's father dies. Emma goes to Joe and asks him to tell Will that she is sorry for what she had said to him.

After Emma's father's funeral she receives a love letter from Will. She leaves for San Francisco to look for him, finding him performing on Fisherman's Wharf.

Cast

• Rachel Bilson as Emma Twist
• Tom Sturridge as Will Donner
• Nikki Blonsky as Dolores
• K.C. Clyde as Dennis
• Blythe Danner as Miranda Twist
• Roz Ryan as Dorothy
• Matthew Davis as Aaron
• Larry Filion as Larry, the bartender.
• Nelson Franklin as Joe
• Richard Gant as Albert
• K. Danor Gerald as Detective 2
• Frank Gerrish as taxi driver.
• Charles Halford as State Trooper
• Richard Jenkins as Richard Twist
• Jaime King as Susan Donner
• Scott Mechlowicz as Jim Donner
• Borzin Mottaghian as driver.
• Joseph D. Reis as hopeless man.
• Andrew Roach as Stewart
• John Ross as Will's dad.
• Michelle Sebekzes as Will's mother.
• David Taylor as Dennis
• Ace Olson as Amos, Will's nephew.

Reception

The film went into limited theatrical release on February 4, 2011, and played from three to 14 theaters during its two-week run. With a production budget of US$5 million, it grossed $25,517.

The film was panned by movie critics, scoring 6% on the film-critics aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes. Stephen Holden of The New York Times said, "More often than not, I felt suffocated by the gaseous sentimentality and lightheadedness of a story that drops in subplots that it can't begin to develop." David Noh of Film Journal International found the Will character to be "nothing more than a stalker, and it is the premise of James Keach's idiotic simper of a film that you find his behavior not only somehow justifiable, but irresistible. ... Keach tries to amp things up in the last act by throwing in a supposed murder that is merely groan-inducing, especially when you realize that this will only extend the already excruciating exposition." While acceding Noh's former point, Pete Hammond of Boxoffice nonetheless called it a "refreshingly pure, honest and original love story", and bemoaned that, "a small movie that sports no real exploitative elements except genuine human interactions is a tough sell."