The Conjuring
Both films turn a family home into the centre of a crisis, but where The Conjuring builds dread through the farmhouse’s threatening spaces, Crazy, Stupid, Love. finds comedy and hurt in the domestic routines a marriage has disrupted.
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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.
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What it’s about — and how it feels
A family rupture sends Cal back into the dating world, where Jacob’s lessons in confidence collide with the habits and attachments Cal can’t simply shed. The film braids awkward courtship, marriage-in-crisis drama and intersecting romantic plots, using comic reversals to ask what sincerity looks like after people have performed versions of themselves for too long.
Divorce and dating after fortyA mentor-and-pupil makeover with comic frictionRomantic plots that cross and collideSincerity beneath polished flirtation
Where it stands
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Details
- Directed by
- Glenn Ficarra
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- Starring
- Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore
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The Shawshank Redemption
Both dramas follow men trying to hold onto integrity through a destabilizing ordeal: Andy’s long confinement gives The Shawshank Redemption a patient, prison-bound structure, while Crazy, Stupid, Love. moves among overlapping relationships and the everyday jol