Crazy Stupid Love Summary

Summary: The movie “Crazy, Stupid, Love” is an incredible person v.s. self journey with all the characters in it. The movie starts off with a tragic divorce between main characters, Cal Weaver and Emily Weaver. New main character, Jacob Palmer, gets introduced which leads the story on a search to find the man that Cal Weaver once was. Meanwhile Emily is searching for the happiness she lost years ago. Jacob Palmer throughout the story goes from an unfaithful player to madly in love with Hannah Weaver. Two other minor characters, Robbie Weaver and Jessica Riley, struggle with person battles on finding the right match as well. In the end of the story, Cal and Emily end up together with all their past mistakes behind them.

Exposition: The exposition of the movie shows us what Cal and Emily are like as a couple. It lets us see how they react to each other and how distant they are spiritually when they’re supposed to be the closest to people can get. There

is exposition somewhat throughout the movie because the characters reminisce several times on how Emily and Cal used to feel about each other.
Inciting Incident: The inciting incident comes when Emily Weaver tells Cal Weaver that she wants a divorce.

She expresses that she has cheated on Cal and has felt this way for a long time. This is the inciting incident because this sets the movie on track, it leads us into Cal going to find himself and who he was without Emily. It introduces us to the idea that Cal needs to learn to be a better man for his family and wife.

Rising Action: The Rising Action of this story starts when Cal has to move into his own apartment and spends many nights alone at bars sealing some sort of attention and friendship. This leads him to meeting Jacob, Jacob then makes it his mission to get Cal to find his manhood once again. The pair then start shopping for a new look for Cal, going to the gym, and getting Cal to observe how to speak to women. Cal masters this skill and fraternize with many women. The final Rising Action which leads our character to the worst final step in his journey is when Emily finds out about Cal’s many

conquests.
Climax: The Climax of this movie takes place when Cal is up in front of his friends, family, and even the women he’s been fraternizing with and announces his feelings towards Emily. Cal tells about how his feelings for emily haven’t changed since he was fifteen, he tells his son, Robbie, who had “given up on love,” that he knows him better than that and he knows Robbie would never give up on his soulmate. The crowd is moved and applauding but the only thing that matters is if Emily feels the same and if they are both willing to forgive and forget.
Resolution: The resolution of this movie should be very clear by now. Emily and Cal have a long heartfelt talk, where my favorite line of the movie is said. My understanding of what happens between them is that they’re both very hurt and confusing but a love as strong as theirs can’t be diminished. Our other characters, Robbie and Jessica, settle on seeing where life takes them in a few years. While Hannah and Jacob are starting a fiery new romance. This movie means a lot to me because it emphasizes the fact that relationships and families and people cannot be perfect but can seem perfect to the people who are in them or in love with them.