By all accounts, Tom and Violet are destined for their happily ever after. However, this engaged couple just keep getting tripped up on the long walk down the aisle. Sign In. Edit The Five-Year Engagement Jump to: Summaries 5 Synopsis 1.
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Films I watched in Boredom Watched List. She wants the Michigan position, but just as important, she wants to do what her mother didn't. Although Suzie initially finds Alex repulsive, they drunkenly sleep together at Tom and Violet's engagement party, she gets pregnant, and they end up, like the protagonists of Apatow's Knocked Up , in a happy union.
She didn't sweat the small stuff, like a career or the suitability of her mate! You might be thinking, "But is the movie funny? At two-and-a-quarter hours, it's too long, but that's mainly because director and co-screenwriter Nicholas Stoller is indulgent: He gives his supporting actors lots of room to show off their tricky rhythms.
A low-key Rhys Ifans is amazingly charming as Violet's lady-killing Welsh professor, who presides over her silly experiments and tells her, with regard to her fiance, that "it's OK to be selfish. To prove her rom-com bonafides, Blunt chatters dizzily and pulls faces, and she has a wonderful face to pull. Segel has said that studio execs ordered him to lose weight so the pairing wouldn't seem completely implausible, but his still-big body moves slowly, giving us the sense that it can't keep up with his emotions — he's unusually likable for a man of non-action.
The Five-Year Engagement is a crowd-pleaser, but for me it still left a bitter taste. In spite of the naughty words, Stoller and co-writer Segel and producer Apatow have engineered a scenario so simplistic and retro that you wonder about their larger agenda.
Do they want women to be more like the main character's sister, for whom getting knocked up in a drunken one-night stand is a blessing in disguise? Search Query Show Search. How to Listen. Tom ends up sleeping with one of his colleagues though it is out of drunkenness, after which he decides to return to San Francisco to work at a friend's restaurant.
While there, he meets Audrey and they start a relationship though it is evident that he is not satisfied. Meanwhile, Violet is dating Winton but breaks up with him as soon as she realizes he gave her a promotion based on their relationship rahter than her credentials. Click here to see the rest of this review Best part of story, including ending: This story creates little suspense and one can predict the end Best scene in story: My favorite scene is when towards the end Violet proposes while at the same time Tom was planning to propose since this leads to their impromptu wedding Opinion about the main character: There is no special characteristic in Tom that I can point out as likable or unlikable.
Tom, a sous chef in San Francisco, and Violet, a student with a PhD in psychology, get engaged and are both as happy as can be. However, as the title indicates, they have to postpone their wedding when Tom's best friend impregnates Violet's sister, necessitating a speedy wedding that would preferably come before Tom and Violet's.
They gladly agree, but further complications arise when Violet is accepted into a post-doctorate program in Michigan. It would last two years, but Tom, not wanting to impede her dreams, agrees to delay the wedding further and move with her to Michigan for two years.
Resentment begins to gather early though, when Tom quits his job in San Francisco and he is informed he would've been the chef at a swanky new restaurant if he'd wanted the position.
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