A good looking male lead starring opposite a pretty, easy to like female lead, in
a Hollywood love story, based on a true story, for Valentine's Day and
you have a winner. The main story is about a woman (Rachel McAdams) who is very much in love with her husband (Channing Tatum), is in a car accident, losing all memory of meeting, loving and
marrying her husband but remembers everything before that including
going to law school, dropping out, being estranged from her family,
dumping her previous boyfriend, moving into the city and becoming a sculptress. The premise is a bit different than the usual boy meets girls, boy loses girl, walking in you know how it will end.

Some acting heft is added by Sam Neill and Jessica Lange, especially the latter, as the parents of Rachel McAdams while full rear nudity is supplied by Channing Tatum and  McAdams provides the perkiness, cuteness and believabilty as an amnesia victim.

The
city, Chicago, is presented in its beauty in all 4 seasons and
sparkling in the night scenes, by the director of photography Rogier Stoffers, while the music soundtrack doesn't soar to interfere with the screenplay by Abby Kohn, Marc Silverstein and Jason Katims nor do they manipulate the audience letting that come naturally from the true story aspect.

Far
from being a classic, or a must see movie, "the Vow" is a film to see
before or after a romantic dinner on Valentine's Day or any other
evening.