Click here to copy URL

The Break-Up

Romance. Comedy Pushed to the breaking-up point after their latest "why can't you do this one little thing for me?" argument, art dealer Brooke (Jennifer Aniston) calls it quits with her boyfriend, Gary (Vince Vaughn), who hosts bus tours of Chicago. What follows is a series of remedies, war tactics, overtures and underminings suggested by the former couple's friends, confidantes and the occasional total stranger. When neither ex is willing to move out ... [+]
Media Author Review
United States
Chicago Tribune
"It's Aniston's return to the emotional authenticity that surfaced too briefly in 'Friends With Money' and made 'The Good Girl' such a revelation"
United States
San Francisco Chronicle
"Imagine watching Bergman's 'Scenes From a Marriage,' except without good scenes, without a marriage and without people worthy of anybody's attention, even each other's. Now imagine something even worse." 
United States
The Hollywood Reporter
"Audiences expecting a good time will instead be rewarded with wildly unsympathetic lead characters and uncomfortably long stretches without a laugh in sight."
United States
LA Weekly
"Sadly, 'The Break-Up' is simply an exercise in confusion. To call it erratic would be to imply there was a course it went off, but the film's intentions are impossible to fathom"
United States
ReelViews
"The Break-Up is like Danny DeVito's 'The War of the Roses,' but without the wit, the acid, and the blacker-than-black humor"
We encourage you to check the reviews' original sources. Intellectual property rights of these reviews belong to their authors and/or the correspondent media from which they have been extracted. If you'd like to help us to add more reviews to your favorite movies, just send us a message.

User history
The Ranchman's Vengeance (S)
1911
Allan Dwan
6.0
(27)
arrow