Crazy Stupid Love :)
I know this picture doesn't look like the most... appropriate. But, if you saw the movie, you know it's fine :) It was just really cute. Everyone is trying to figure out love. They make mistakes, go through heart break and, in the end, find out what it most important. I thought it was really well written.
SPOILER!!
Seriously, I'm gonna give the whole story. If you haven't seen it yet (and are planning to) don't read on :)
So, Emily (Julianne Moore) tells Cal (Steve Carell) she wants a divorce. She doesn't feel the same and thinks they lost their love. She's not happy anymore. Cal is too nice and passive.
Jessica (Analeight Tipton) is their 17 year old babysitting. She knows about their divorce and has a secret crush on Cal. Jessica thinks Emily is crazy for wanting a divorce.
After asking a skanky high school friend for advice in getting older guys, Jessica takes revealing pictures of herself and keeps them in an envelope labeled "Cal." Secret love.
Robbie, Cal and Emily's son, is in love with Jessica. Because of their 4 year age difference, Jessica won't bother with him. Plus, she's his babysitter.
Emily is off kinda-sorta seeing a coworker, David (Kevin Bacon). Nothing too serious but she's looking for something to make her happy and he really likes her.
Hannah (Emma Stone) is a law student and thinks her boyfriend, Richard (Josh Groban), is about to propose.
Jacob (Ryan Gosling) is a ladies man. He could swoon any lady - and does most every night.
Cal is so upset about Emily. He goes to the bar to dink his sorrows away - a little too obvious with his current situation. Jacob is at the same bar, see's Cal and decides to help him "find what he's lost."
While rebuilding Cal, Jacob meets someone he can't forget about...
Since Hannah has a boyfriend, she blows him off.
Jacob takes Cal out to the mall. Makes him buy all new clothes, changing him into (what he thinks is) a real ladies man.
When Hannah finds out Richard was only offering her a job, not proposing, she leaves him at her own party...
...to find someone else.
They go back to Jacob's apartment and instead of doing what he would have done with any other girl, they keep it "PG 13" and end up talking all night. ahh... Puppy love.
Without Jacob there to help him, Cal gets tangled up in his new self. He ends up taking a crazy lady back to his aparment, making a big mistake - a "one night stand."
After not seeing each other for so long, Cal and Emily have a heart-to-heart at a parent teacher conference and stir up their true feelings for each other (Love, of course).
Minutes later, he finds out that crazy lady... is his son's school teacher.
Emily gets mad, storms off. Cal needs Jacob to help him in this situation.
Meanwhile, Jacob is with his love - Hannah.
Hopeless, Cal misses Emily. Emily secretly misses Cal. He wants to win her back...
Cal decides to make it up to her. The kids help him in planning and putting together a huge surprise in the back yard while Emily is at work.
Seeking advice, Jacob calls Cal. Hannah is taking him to meet her mom and he's nervous. Cal chats with him for a minute and wished him luck.
Emily comes home to Robbie waiting on the front porch, instructed to blindfold - because of the surprise in the back yard.
Before she takes off the blindfold, she tells Cal to wait for her daughter. He tells her that Molly, their youngest, is already there. Emily corrected Cal - their other daughter...
When Cal and Jacob see each other, they're confused - what are you doing here? After realizing it, it seems like all hell breaks loose.
Remember the envelope with Jessica's pictures? Her mom finds them in her room, shows her dad, and...
Remember David? - trying to win Emily over?
David shows up at the house, returning Emily's sweater she left in his car.
Jessica's dad storms over ready to kill Cal.
Cal wants to strangle Jacob, "the ladies man" for dating her daughter.
Jacob actually does punch David for ruining Emily and Cal's marriage.
After David leaves and Jessica's dad cools down, it's just Jacob and Cal left at home with Emily, Hannah and the two kids.
Call tries to forbid Hannah from dating Jacob. When he, of course, refused, Call tells them to get out of his home. Emily shoots back at Cal that it's not his home anymore. She tells Cal to go home. On his way out, Cal stops to talk to Robbie. Because Jessica, Robbie's love, just admitted to everyone that she secretly loves Cal, Robbie won't talk to Cal.
At the end of the movie, Robbie speaks at his 8th grade graduation. Cal still isn't on good terms with anyone and shows up to the graduation along. When Robbie starts talking about how stupid love is, Cal jumps up to explain otherwise. He tells Emily how he's loved her since he was 15 years old and changes the whole mood.
After the graduation, everyone meets up outside. They talk it out. Cal and Emily lighten the mood, joking and laughing.
Jessica gives Robbie something to "help him through high school." - those pictures of her. Sick (probably my least favorite part of the movie.
I can't find a picture of Jacob and Hannah...
The end scene is Jacob, Hannah and Cal all agreeing that "this will be fun."
Tah Dahhh!! I loved the movie. So cute :)
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