"You ate the old doughnut"
Tom (Jason Segel) is a sous chef at a top end San Francisco restaurant but is forced to move to the mid
west when his fiancée Violet (Emily Blunt) gets a post graduate position at the
University of Michigan. This occurs shortly after the
couple’s engagement and they decide to put their wedding on hold for a couple
of years until they return to the West Coast. Their relationship is strained
though when Tom fails to fit in or find a satisfying job while Violet’s career
takes off and leaves Tom alone to ponder the career he left in San Francisco.
As soon as the film opens you are able to chart its plot
pretty much to a tee but the journey to the finale is both funny and intelligent.
The film is helped in no small way by two delightful characters played by two
very watchable actors, Blunt and Segel. They appear to have great chemistry and
Blunt in particular comes out of her shell and puts her comedic chops to great
use.
