Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Short description
Cal Weaver has a comfortable life: a steady job, a nice house, children, and a long marriage to Emily, his high-school sweetheart. That life falls apart when Emily admits she has been unfaithful and asks for a divorce. Cal, who has not dated in decades, is left alone and out of step with the singles scene, spending his evenings drinking at a bar. There he meets Jacob Palmer, a confident younger man who decides to take him on and coach him in the ways of casual romance. Their arrangement is complicated by Cal's teenage son Robbie, who is infatuated with his babysitter Jessica, and by Jessica's own feelings for Cal.
Glenn Ficarra and John Requa directed the film, their second feature together after I Love You Phillip Morris. Dan Fogelman wrote the screenplay, and Denise Di Novi and Steve Carell produced. Carell leads the cast as Cal, with Ryan Gosling as Jacob, Julianne Moore as Emily, Emma Stone as Hannah, Lio Tipton as Jessica and Jonah Bobo as Robbie, among 62 credited performers. The production cost about 50 million dollars and took roughly 145 million worldwide, a strong return. On IMDb it holds 7.4 from 614,000 votes and on TMDB 7.3 from 9,525 votes, while critics' reviews average 6.9 from 235, so audiences rate it slightly higher than critics do.
What's left behind the scenes
- Cal and Emily Weaver live at 2002 Minoru Drive, north of New York Drive, in Altadena, north of Pasadena. The film's production designer, William Arnold, had to alter the back of the house to open up the backyard.
- This is the second film featuring Emma Stone in which the book "The Scarlet Letter" is mentioned – in "Easy A" (2010), the book and its adaptations are one of the main elements of the plot.
- The stylish bar "Plas" (Plus), packed with attractive single women readily agreeing to anything, is no more than a product of the director's imagination. Such a bar never existed outside of Warner Bros. Studio's Soundstage No. 19 in Burbank (as the bar plays a significant role in the film, closing an expensive bar during filming would have been impractical). This location is already familiar to Steve Carell: Bistro Garden, where the speed dating scene for "The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)" was filmed, is located just across the street. All other locations, with the exception of Cal Weaver's apartment, actually exist.
- Steve Carell filmed the comedy in between filming the humorous series "The Office" (2005-2013) that made him famous.
- The object of their son Robbie's affection, nanny Jessica, attends school at Ulysses S Grant High School, 13000 Oxnard Street in Valley Glen.
- Emma Stone is only three days older than Analise Tipton. However, her character is almost 10 years older than Jessica, Tipton's character.
- The restaurant where Emily Weaver (Julianne Moore) unexpectedly informs her husband Cal Weaver in the first scene that she wants a divorce is Pinot Bistro (which closed after filming). The restaurant was located at 12969 Ventura Boulevard, at Van Noord Avenue, Studio City, in the San Fernando Valley.
- When Robbie deletes Jessica's number from his phone, the adjacent number – Joey K. – can be noticed. Joey King is the name of the actress who plays Robbie's sister, Molly.
- Gregory Heights Middle School, where the parent-teacher meeting took place that nearly reunited Cal and Emily, is actually Taft High School, located at 5461 Winnetka Avenue, south of Ventura Boulevard, slightly east of South Valley. Taft High School also served as the location for Midtown Science High School in the 2012 film *The Amazing Spider-Man*, directed by Marc Webb.
- The film was included in the list of the best films of 2011 by the authoritative American magazine "TV Guide".
- The cocktail that Jacob makes several times throughout the film is, according to some historians, the first American cocktail. It contains mineral water, ice, whiskey, sugar, and a large piece of orange peel.
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