Comedy-drama directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. It’s a sort of American Love Actually, with interwoven strands and an ensemble cast telling several connected stories.
Steve Carell and Julianne Moore play Cal and Emily Weaver, a middle-aged couple in the process of separating. Ryan Gosling is Jacob, a super-confident ladies’ man, who (implausibly) decides to teach Cal everything he knows about sweet-talking women. Meanwhile, Emma Stone is a law school graduate who turned down Jacob's advances. Kevin Bacon is the co-worker Julianne Moore's character pairs up with.
It’s quite funny in places if you can suspend disbelief about various scenarios that fail to ring true. Morally, it’s all over the place and I’m not entirely sure what point it was trying to make about predatory men.
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