Storyline
Pushed to the breaking-up point after their latest 'why can't you do this one little thing for me?' argument, Brooke calls it quits with her boyfriend Gary. What follows is a hilarious series of remedies, war tactics, overtures and undermining tricks – all encouraged by the former couple's friends and confidantes …and the occasional total stranger! When neither ex is willing to move out of their shared apartment, the only solution is to continue living as hostile roommates until one of them reaches breaking point.
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Cast
Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, John Michael Higgins, Rebecca Spence, Justin Long, Jon Favreau, Vincent D'Onofrio, Vince Vaughn, Eduardo N. Martinez, Elaine Robinson, Cole Hauser, Peter Billingsley, Geoff Stults, Keir O'Donnell, Joey Lauren Adams, William Dick, Ann-Margret, Judy Davis, Ivan Sergei, Vernon Vaughn, Jane Alderman, Jacqueline Williams, Jane Hu, Mary-Pat Green, Tiffany L. Addison, Jessica Vilchis, Lisa Pace, Samantha Albert, Susan Messing, Wayne A. Brown, Maynard Love, Jenna Hurt, Jessica Stramer, Ashley Giancola, Lanae Sahs, Sharon Vaughn, Nydia Rodriguez Terracina, Phil Ridarelli, Rhett Miller, Murry Hammond, Ken Bethea, Philip Peeples, Chuck Stubbings
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Reviews
50
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.
50
Variety
Sporadic rays of sunshine emanate from the broad and gifted supporting cast, but the core story is almost relentlessly unpleasant, like sitting through a dinner party where the host couple does nothing but bicker.
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)
A routine, stereotype-stuffed sitcom with pretensions.
50
Entertainment Weekly
The best bits are incidental: Vaughn's chats with Jon Favreau as his bartender buddy, which are delightful interludes of jostling ego, and Judy Davis, looking like Anna Wintour redesigned by Tim Burton as an undead marionette, laying down the law as Aniston's boss.
50
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.
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