The Five Year Engagement
On the first anniversary, chef Tom Solomon (Jason Seagull) may be planning to do something different as he wants to surprise his girlfriend Violet Barnes (Emily Blunt) with an engagement ring. There are more unexpected events going on in Violet's life as they look forward to a single path that might surprise everyone.
19 August 1980, Bath, Somerset, England, UK
24 March 1963, Wyandotte, Michigan, USA
5 February 1967, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
2 December 1976, California, USA
24 June 1979, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
2 February 1985, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
4 October 1989, Austin, Texas, USA
25 May 1947, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
6 July 1979, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
September 27, 2012
It's a bit over-stuffed, but the narrative does come full-circle and successfully balances charming comedy gags grounded in a memorable and contemporary love story.
September 17, 2012
You'll definitely laugh and it's hard to resist the adorableness factor of Blunt and Segel.
September 10, 2012
The Jason Segel-Emily Blunt romcom has a cold, standoffish first act but ultimately warms up, becoming a genuinely sweet romantic comedy.
June 20, 2013
More often, the movie reduces everything to sitcom levels of tidiness and routine.
April 30, 2012
A charming, funny, reactionary mating comedy from the Judd Apatow factory...
June 23, 2013
Probably should have just focused on the Chris Pratt and Alison Brie characters.
April 28, 2012
A fun, entertaining picture, and another credit to Segel's rising career as a writer and star.
May 01, 2012
An exemplary modern romantic comedy, personal and symbolic, goofy and substantial, tightly imagined yet loosely strung, wise in bewilderment.
June 02, 2013
You'd be challenged to laugh once during a two-hour-plus slog in which much of the intended hilarity resides in frequent utterances of the F-bomb, venison and Wham! posters.
May 01, 2012
Like Apatow's "Funny People," the film is an intentional hybrid: half gag comedy, half open-ended exploration of everything that can go wrong -- and occasionally right -- between two people whom nature, if not society, means to be together.
April 28, 2012
[It] feels poignant and real in a way few raunch comedies are.
June 19, 2012
This is a watchable but rather drab romcom which relies too often on Apatow-school cliché.
