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Monday, October 1, 2012

The Five Year Engagement (2012)

Ok, this is not a movie with a deeper meaning.  You won't wake up six weeks after seeing it still thinking about it.  that said, I found it to be entertaining, as well as containing some relationship truths that don't often get into the romantic comedy genre.
Here's the story: Jason Segel is a San Francisco sous chef, Tom Solomon, and Emily Blunt is Violet Barnes, a doctoral candidate in psychology and Tom's  fiancé.  The premise is that juggling two careers can be trecherous.
Tom is on the verge of being the head chef at a new restaurant, while Violet gets into grad school in Ann Arbor.  Tom say no problem, I can cook anywhere.  Only it turns out he can't.  He ends up making sandwiches at Zingerman's and hating his life.  Which he is loath to tell Violet about, and at first she doesn't notice, but when he starts hunting with a stay at home dad, serving only meat he has personally shot, foraging for greens, and making mead that he serves out of his own homemade vessels, she can't ignore it.  Still he refuses to engage in a discussion about how they might compromise in an attempt to find mutual happiness, and the relationship waivers.  It is on the fence for a while, but then comes back with an amuzing bang at the end.  I agree with reviews that this could have been a 90 minute movie, but I wasn't dying for it to end, and it was a pleasant but not sugar coated look at relationships.

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