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The Five-Year Engagement (2012)
★ 5.9 · 1,403 ratings on TMDB
A comedy about the journey between popping the question and tying the knot.
Exactly one year after Tom meets Violet, he surprises her with a wedding ring. By all accounts, Tom and Violet are destined for their happily ever after. However, this engaged couple just keep getting tripped up on the long walk down the aisle.
DirectorNicholas Stoller
The emergence reading
The Five-Year Engagement keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
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