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Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Cal Weaver is living the American dream. He has a good job, a beautiful house, great children and a beautiful wife, named Emily. Cal's seemingly perfect life unravels, however, when he learns that Emily has been unfaithful and wants a divorce. Over 40 and suddenly single, Cal is adrift in the fickle world of dating. Enter, Jacob Palmer, a self-styled player who takes Cal under his wing and teaches him how to be a hit with the ladies.
2011 · Directed by Glenn Ficarra · 118 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance · Screenplay in the scene database · 13 frames
Tagline
This is crazy. This is stupid. This is love.
Plot
Cal Weaver is a middle-aged family man whose wife Emily asks for a divorce after she reveals an affair she had with co-worker David Lindhagen. The news stuns Cal, who jumps out of their moving car when Emily tries to talk about the affair. The divorce also ends his friendship with best friend Bernie Riley, whose wife sides with Emily over Cal.
After moving into his own apartment, Cal begins frequenting an upscale bar, where he talks loudly about his wife cheating and divorce. He meets Jacob Palmer, a young man and womanizer who frequently beds different women but was recently rejected by a law school graduate, Hannah. Jacob takes pity on Cal and offers to teach him how to pick up women. After a few awkward attempts to talk to women, Cal seduces a woman named Kate at the bar. This experience gives him the confidence to seduce other women, and he begins to emulate Jacob's example successfully.
Eventually, Cal and Emily reunite at their 13-year-old son Robbie's parent–teacher conference, where she is impressed by his newfound confidence and fitted clothes. Their reunion goes well until they meet Robbie's teacher, who turns out to be Kate, and who spitefully reveals her and Cal's tryst because he never called her afterwards. In the ensuing argument, Cal inadvertently confesses to having sex with nine women since their separation, so Emily leaves in disgust that Cal did this as payback for her cheating while also openly dating David.
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Crew
- Written by: Dan Fogelman
- Cinematography: Andrew Dunn
- Edited by: Lee Haxall
- Music: Christophe Beck, Nick Urata
- Production design: William Arnold
- Produced by: Denise Di Novi, Steve Carell
Cast
- Steve Carell as Cal
- Ryan Gosling as Jacob
- Julianne Moore as Emily
- Emma Stone as Hannah
- Lio Tipton as Jessica
- Jonah Bobo as Robbie
- Joey King as Molly
- Marisa Tomei as Kate
- Beth Littleford as Claire
- John Carroll Lynch as Bernie
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Warner Bros. Pictures
- Budget: $50,000,000
- Box office: $145,079,584
- Themes: friendship, soulmates, marriage crisis, midlife crisis, babysitter, womanizer, law school, los angeles, california, middle school, relationship
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