![]() ![]() This leads to an endless string of scenes that alternate between the two indulging in bouts of what a far wiser man once referred to as “rumpy-pumpy” and fighting over issues that could have easily been cleared up if they did not collectively possess the IQ of a crouton.Īlong the way, Hardin’s Tortured Past comes back into play and rears its ugly head when he, along with Tessa and his mom, attends the fancy Christmas party thrown by his rich and estranged father ( Rob Estes) and new stepmother ( Karimah Westbrook), making a drunken spectacle of himself. Nevertheless, her feelings for Hardin are still there, and when his mother ( Louise Lombard) arrives from England under the assumption that they are still together (don’t ask), she agrees to play along. As for Tessa, she has a slightly stronger rebound as she begins her new job as an intern reading manuscripts for a publishing company and manages to find the next mega-seller, is taken along by her boss for a wild night partying with investors (including a fancy new dress and hotel suite on the company dime) and makes goo-goo eyes with shy-but-hunky accountant Trevor ( Dylan Sprouse), all within her first 24 hours of employment. ![]() This caused her to dump him, sensibly enough, but the final moments of the film suggested that there might be a happy ending for them after all.Īs it turns out, that optimistic conclusion was merely a figment of Hardin’s imagination and when we first see him, a month after the events of the first film, he is filling his days drinking, getting tattoos and pining for his lost love. Viewers watched the progression, for lack of a better word, of their relationship-with older ones quizzically noting the presence of such familiar faces as Blair, Peter Gallagher, and Jennifer Beals in brief throwaway roles along the way-before coming to the shocking climactic revelation that Hardin’s wooing of Tessa was the result of a dare. At college, Tessa quickly found herself in the thrall of Hardin Scott ( Hero Fiennes Tiffin), the campus Lothario whose bad-boy exterior masked a tortured soul that only she could properly nurture. For those of you who somehow managed to miss “After,” it recounted the story of Tessa Young ( Josephine Langford), the bookish and repressed daughter of an overbearing mother ( Selma Blair). ![]()
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