The Break-Up
(2006)
romantic comedy
directed
by : Peyton Reed
featuring
: Jennifer Aniston - Vince Vaughn - Joey Lauren Adams - Cole Hauser
- Jon Favrean
running
time : 1 hour 46 minutes
A once-loving couple whose happily-ever-after
quickly turned into a never-again finds their crumbling romance complicated
when both parties refuse to move out of the pair's recently purchased condo.
The Break-Up is a romantic comedy that starts where all the others end.
The future once looked promising for thirtysomething couple Brooke (Jennifer
Aniston) and Gary (Vince Vaughn), but lately it seems like a series of
increasingly petty and intolerable squabbles have snuffed any semblance
of romance in their relationship. Their confrontation endlessly fueled
by mean-spirited suggestions of revenge tactics from friends and family
and their stubborn refusal to budge resulting in an excruciating stalemate,
Brooke and Gary ultimately decide to spitefully stick it out as hostile
roommates until the weaker party eventually admits defeat. As the competition
to drive one another out grows increasingly intense and outrageous, however,
Brooke eventually comes to the realization that she's not fighting for
possession of the condominium as much as she is fighting to salvage her
relationship with the man she once viewed as the love of her life.