The Five-Year Engagement Page #7

Synopsis: 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?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Nicholas Stoller
Production: Universal Pictures
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
62
Rotten Tomatoes:
63%
R
Year:
2012
124 min
$28,644,770
Website
1,375 Views


the honey myself.

Tom has become something

of an amateur beekeeper.

It's just at the right stage of fermentation.

(SNIFFS) Here you go.

Drink as much

as you like.

I feel like I'm drinking

out of Chewbacca's dick.

Oh, wow.

That's just honey, huh?

That's really...

It's hurting my teeth.

So, we're having a boy.

Oh, my God!

Yeah!

Congratulations!

Yeah! Thank you!

That is amazing news.

One of each.

A little prince. One of each,

so we're done, that's it.

Oh, I knew it!

SUZIE:
So great.

You were boobing out when you came in.

SUZIE:
Yeah.

Yeah.

That is so exciting

for you guys.

I couldn't be

happier for you guys.

Thank you.

I'm not sure that I ever

want to have kids.

What is it?

I thought you had always wanted kids.

That's silly.

You know, sometimes the biggest

balls are the ones left unused.

(CHUCKLES)

What the f***

did you just say?

I don't know.

It's an expression.

Do you know what?

I have an idea.

Tom and I are going to take

care of Vanessa tonight.

You two are

going to go out.

And I will prove to you

how fun children are, okay?

Yes. Mmm-hmm.

Yeah, I don't want

Vanessa to take part

in one of her psychological

experiments.

It's not an experiment.

SUZIE:
I'm fine with it.

Yes, I am fine doing that.

I need a night out.

You know what, we'll talk

about it and get back to you.

Done, done.

It's done. Come on.

SUZIE:
Honey.

Honey?

(WHISPERING) Alex, I do.

You don't understand.

Honey, come on. SUZIE: I

think we're doing it.

He looks like a drifter.

SUZIE:
I don't care

if he's a psycho.

You go out every night!

I need this.

Look at him.

SUZIE:
I never go out.

I can hear you.

SUZIE:
Do this for me.

Do this for me.

When we come back, she'll be

hanging on a hook in the garage.

SUZIE:
Come on. No.

ALEX:
I'm telling you.

SUZIE:
We're doing it tonight.

Do this for me.

Well, it's decided,

we're going out!

All right!

All right.

SUZIE:
We're doing it. Yeah.

It's going to be fun.

Put it on the other side.

Like that? Should we try to

make another set of steps?

I gotta go and pee.

Can you just watch her for one second?

Yeah, yeah. Of course.

Okay.

How did this

go in together?

TOM:
I don't know, but it kind of

looks like a train, doesn't it?

I'm going to

put this one here.

This is all I need.

Totally.

(LAUGHING)

Tom, where's Vanessa?

Babe, you have

got to see this.

Tom, where's Vanessa?

What?

Where is she?

You have to keep

an eye on her.

She was literally

just right here.

Okay, but you got to

keep an eye, you know?

Okay, I'm sure she's right around here.

Vanessa?

Vanessa? Vanessa,

where are you?

Oh, my God, Tom!

What are you

talking about? Whoa.

What is your crossbow

doing on the kitchen table?

A crossbow doesn't

clean itself, you know.

What is it doing there?

Hey.

Yeah.

Why don't you... Why don't we

come back out here and play?

No. I'm Pocahontas.

(BOTH SCREAMING)

VIOLET:
Oh, my God!

Oh, my God!

All right,

just get to the...

Oh, my God, it's in my leg!

Oh, my God, it's in my leg!

Oh, my God!

(SCREAMING)

Stay calm! Stay calm!

Get it out!

Get it out of my leg!

Get it out of my leg!

Okay! Okay!

I'm gonna pull it out!

No, no, no,

don't pull it out!

That'll ruin the meat.

It's not meat,

it's my leg!

I got it! Stay calm!

Get it out!

(SCREAMING)

That's really in there.

Oh, sh*t.

Oh, my God!

My God.

Ugh!

Just put pressure on it.

What happened?

She shot me

with a crossbow.

What?

I want to punch you in the face right now.

Do you understand that?

I think we should

all just...

My sister had an arrow

in her leg tonight, Tom!

It's not an arrow,

it's a bolt.

ALEX:
Well, I guess we were totally wrong!

It's a bolt!

Oh, you're right. You know what,

we're in the wrong, here.

My daughter didn't just witness

herself nearly murdering her aunt!

There was blood

all over the place!

She's up there freaking out right now!

She sh*t her pants!

She hasn't sh*t her pants

in two or three months

and now she's up there,

shitting her pants!

She feels responsible for

injuring her aunt, who she loves!

You understand what

that does to a kid?

You don't! And you don't even give...

You don't care.

It's a good thing you don't

want to be a father,

because you'd be

a terrible father.

And I don't like this. I don't

like this new "Lamb Chop" Tom!

You lost it, bro. Tether's

cut, you're in orbit.

You're out there.

God! I'm so sorry!

I'm sorry, but please

don't be so upset.

At least nobody died.

PRIEST:
And Grandpa Baba's

last words were,

"I can't wait until

Violet's wedding."

Okay, babe, I gotta go.

I'm really late.

Okay. Mmm. Donuts. Are

you going to eat these?

No, but those are old.

And if you want to

just wait for a minute,

I'll be back with

some fresh ones.

Mmm!

These are fine. I didn't

have to wait at all.

Are you going

to get dressed today?

I think today is

more of a bunny day.

Yeah.

(PEOPLE TOASTING LOUDLY)

I have to say something.

I have to say something.

I just have to be, just for real.

I love you guys.

ALL:
Aw!

I love you guys.

This is a f***ing great

department, all of you guys.

You guys are

the best co-workers.

Except Ming, I don't know. I

just don't think you respect me.

I don't think that

you've ever respected me.

And I'm just not feeling it,

and I had to be honest.

But to everyone else, to us!

VIOLET:
Yeah!

Whoo!

To everyone except Ming.

DOUG:
Except for Ming.

VIOLET:
Sorry, Ming.

DOUG:
Oh, wow.

I want to give a toast.

I love all of you so much.

You're my best friends. The best

friends anybody could ever ask for.

Except for you, Vaneetha.

I don't like you.

I don't like you.

You're a b*tch.

But I love all

of you so much!

I love all of you.

You're the best!

DOUG:
All right.

Except for Vaneetha,

you're the best!

Calm down, Ming.

She's a b*tch.

(MING LAUGHING)

(ALARM RINGING)

Listen, what

I want to know is,

why are professors in movies

always writing stuff,

equations and stuff,

on windows?

I don't know.

I don't get it.

I don't get it, either.

I don't understand it.

I don't get the fact that my

fianc behaves like a freak.

These are not

things that I know.

I mean, surely, you know,

in a university

you wouldn't be far

from a pen and paper,

or a computer,

or an overhead projector...

I feel like you're

not listening to me.

I feel like

you're not listening.

I'm trying to offload and

tell you my issues with Tom.

Oh, shut up, will you?

Put a sock in it.

Why? I'm coming

to you as a friend.

You're wallowing.

No, I'm not.

Yes, you are.

I'm not wallowing.

You are wallowing.

What do you know? You don't know

anything about relationships.

Well, all right,

I'll take that.

When I'm in a relationship,

I'm a complete and

utter control freak.

Are you really? Are you really, though?

But that's not what...

It doesn't matter.

I'm surprised.

What we're talking about

now is your wallowing.

I'm not wallowing.

I was just trying

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Jason Segel

Jason Jordan Segel (; born January 18, 1980) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. He is known for his role as Marshall Eriksen in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, as well as for his work with producer Judd Apatow on the television series Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared, and for the critically and commercially successful comedies he has starred in, written, and produced. Segel has starred in several films, including Knocked Up (2007), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), I Love You, Man (2009), Despicable Me (2010), Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011), The Muppets (2011), The Five-Year Engagement (2012), Sex Tape (2014) and The Discovery (2017). His performance as the late author David Foster Wallace in the 2015 film The End of the Tour was met with critical acclaim, earning him a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead. more…

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