The Five Year Engagement


The FiveYear Engagement is a 2012 American romantic comedydrama cowritten, directed, and produced by Nicholas Stoller. Produced with Judd Apatow and Rodney Rothman, it is cowritten by Jason Segel, who also stars in the lead roles with Emily Blunt as a couple whose relationship becomes strained when their engagement is continually extended. The film was released in North America on April 27, 2012 and in the United Kingdom on June 22, 2012.

In Michigan, Violet settles into her new job nicely under her professor Winton Childs Rhys Ifans. She bases her main thesis on people opting to eat stale donuts versus waiting for fresh donuts, associating impulsecontrol problems with personal and professional instability. However, Tom, unable to find a suitable chefs position, ends up working at Zingermans and taking up hunting. Tom and Violets nuptials get delayed even further when Winton receives NIH funding with Violets help, enabling him to extend her program. In the meantime, grandparents of Violet start to die.As years pass, Tom becomes increasingly disillusioned with his life, which becomes evident to Violet when she sees him eat a stale donut. While at a bar with colleagues, a drunken Violet and Winton kiss each other which Violet immediately regrets. She then visits Tom at work and tells him she wants to plan their wedding now, to which Tom happily agrees. Tom cleans himself up and they make arrangements together. Everything goes well until Violet decides to confess to Tom about kissing Winton. Tom gets disillusioned about their relationship, which reaches a climax when Winton comes to Tom and Violets rehearsal dinner to try to apologize. Tom rejects his apology and starts chasing Winton away, with Violet trying to catch up, but Winton gets away after Tom insists that he run or fight him. A drunken Tom then runs into Margaret, one of his Zingermans coworkers and has the chance to have sex with her, but opts out. He wakes up halfnaked in the snow with a frostbitten toe, and he is taken to the hospital where the toe is amputated. Violet visits Tom at the hospital, before they call off their engagement once they arrive home. ........

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