This film is easily one of the most enjoyable ones of the year. And the cast is simply marvelous: Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone, Marisa Tomei and Kevin Bacon. All are perfect in their roles.
Steve Carell and Julianne Moore are Cal and Emily Weaver, a seemingly happy married couple, but then, out of the blue, she announces that she wants a divorce and slept with someone else (the pompous but well-meaning accountant Kevin Bacon). Cal can't handle this so he journeys to a near-by bar and complains to everyone about his current perdicament. Jacob Palmer a smooth talking ladies' man takes Cal under his wing, but only because he does not want to hear Cal whine anymore. And it works, women start finding him attractive and going home with him, but will Emily want him back and will Cal fight for her?
And then there's Jacob, who may have finally found the missing piece of his puzzle with the brand-new lawyer, Hannah, a great and hilarious Emma Stone who also just broke up with her crazy, anal boyfriend Richard. Will everything work out between the two of them?
However, despite having two great plots, there is yet a third, and this one is not nearly as endearing. Robbie the teenage son of Cal and Emily is completely in love with the babysitter Jessica but she has a crush on someone else and goes through deseperate (and disgusting) lengths to prove it, but Robbie is not just going to let her go, he's going to fight, but will their age difference (roughly four to five years) prove too much, or will true love (perhaps) prevail?
I can probably watch this movie everyday just because of the great and unexpected plot twist that left the audiences I saw it with gasp and it left them shocked, and the other reason is because of Ryan Gosling's abs which also do not disappoint. Grade: A- (though it is considerably more enjoyable than The Descendents)
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