The Five-Year Engagement(2012)
Universal Pictures Apr 27, 2012
One year after meeting, Tom proposes to his girlfriend, Violet, but unexpected events keep tripping them up as they look to walk down the aisle together.
Release Details
Original Release | Apr 27, 2012 | Wide
Box Office Results
Results
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Technical Specifications
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital,Datasat,SDDS
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Other Details
Country of Origin: United States, Japan
Language: English,Spanish
Summaries
Plot Summary
- Tom Solomon (Jason Segel), a sous chef at a fancy restaurant, and Violet Barnes (Emily Blunt), a psychology PhD graduate, are a happy couple in San Francisco who get engaged a year after they began dating. A year ago, they met at a New Year's make up your own superhero party. Tom was a super bunny, and Violet was dressed as Princess Diana. They host an engagement party for their family and friends. Tom has parents Carol (Mimi Kennedy) and Pete (David Paymer). Violet has parents Sylvia (Jacki Weaver) and George (Jim Piddock). Before Tom, Violet was dating Gideon (Adam Campbell) for 4 and a half years. Gideon turns up to the engagement party and is distraught that Violet is marrying Tom.Their nuptials get interrupted when Tom's best friend Alex Eilhauer (Chris Pratt) gets Violet's sister Suzie (Alison Brie) pregnant at Tom and Violet's engagement party and the two marry before Tom and Violet.Their nuptials get further delayed when Violet gets accepted into the University of Michigan's post-doctorate in psychology program which lasts two years. Tom agrees to move with her and delay their wedding until then. However, when he tells his boss Chef Sally (Lauren Weedman), he becomes disheartened when she states she was planning on making him head chef at a new restaurant in town.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 impulse-control problems with personal and professional instability. However, Tom, unable to find a suitable chef's position, ends up working at Zingerman's Delicatessen and taking up hunting with Bill (Chris Parnell), a fellow university faculty spouse. Violet settles into her new job under professor Winton Childs, working with Doug (Kevin Hart), Ming (Randall Park), and Vaneetha (Mindy Kaling) . Tom and Violet's nuptials get delayed even further when Winton receives NIH funding with Violet's help, enabling him to extend her program. Tom is upset by the news, and he and Violet fight over his unhappiness with their new life. Violet's research proves that people who eat stale donuts, instead of waiting for fresh ones, are essentially screw-ups.In the meantime, grandparents of both Tom and Violet die. Tom is angry when Violet again asks him to postpone marriage & extend their stay in Michigan. Tom hates Michigan as he had to give up a successful career in San Francisco to come & support Violet.As years pass, Tom becomes increasingly disillusioned with his life, which becomes evident to Violet when she sees him eat a stale donuts. Alex, Suzie, and their daughter Vanessa visit, and reveal Suzie is pregnant again. Tom responds that he no longer wants to have a child, surprising Violet, who offers to look after Vanessa with Tom, but the night turns into a disaster after Vanessa shoots Violet with Tom's crossbow.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 Violet's rehearsal dinner to try to apologize. Tom refuses 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 one of his Zingerman's co-workers and has the chance to have sex with her but opts out. He wakes up half-naked 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, where they call off their engagement.Tom moves back to San Francisco and becomes a sous-chef under Alex at the new restaurant, while also starting a relationship with the hostess Audrey (Dakota Johnson). Audrey is young & restless & drains Tom with all her sexual demands & energy. However, Tom's parents and Alex see that Tom is dissatisfied with his new life and motivate him to act upon this.Violet starts a relationship with Winton but often reminisces about Tom, who wishes her a happy birthday via email, including a video of Ming's ridiculous experiment on his friend Tarquin. She receives an assistant professorship at the university but becomes upset when she learns she got the job because Winton wanted to keep her in Michigan rather than her abilities as a researcher and breaks up with Winton.Violet calls Tom, who has returned to San Francisco, working as a sous-chef under Alex and dating the hostess, Audrey. Their friendly-but-awkward conversation takes a turn as they argue over Violet's stale donuts experiment as a metaphor for their relationship, and both end the call upset. Alex fires him, telling Tom that he is the better chef and should open his own franchise. Tom launches a specialty taco truck.Violet receives an assistant professorship but learns she was hired because she is dating Winton and breaks up with him. After lunch with his parents, Tom decides to win Violet back and breaks up with Audrey. He surprises Violet at her grandparents' funeral in England, and they agree to spend the remainder of the summer together in San Francisco, rekindling their relationship while sharing an apartment and working in the taco truck.Driving Violet to the airport, Tom offers to take his truck to Michigan and continue their relationship. Violet proposes to Tom at the side of the road, just as he did five years before, and Tom reveals the ring he originally gave her, explaining that he was planning to re-propose at the airport. They head to Alamo Square, where Violet has organized their family and friends for an impromptu wedding. Tom chooses between Violet's various options for the officiant, clothing, and music, and they finally marry.Tom and Violet share their first kiss as a married couple, and the film flashes back to their first kiss when they first met at a New Year's Eve party. Alex and Suzie sing "Cucurrucucu Paloma" on a carriage ride with the newly-wedded couple.
Storyline
- In San Francisco, after a year's relationship, Tom proposes to Violet; she accepts. She's an experimental psychologist, hoping for a post-doc at Cal. He's a sous chef who runs the kitchen when the chef is away. When Cal falls through and she gets an offer in Ann Arbor, Tom agrees to support the move, turning down a job as chef at a new restaurant. The move requires postponing the wedding. At Michigan, Violet is in her element, but Tom is underemployed and frustrated; he's Stoic for a while, but when two years in Michigan become four, Tom's frustrations boil over, and on the eve of yet another wedding date, they must make a choice. Is there any other alternative? —
