In love, engaged but not yet married: Jason Segel and Emily Blunt celebrate their engagement – for five whole years.

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Tom and Violet meets at a New Year's costume party in San Francisco. They fall in love and one year later he asks her to marry him. When Violet gets a job offer as a psychology professor at the University of Michigan, Tom, who works as a top chef, follows his bride-to-be to the Midwest and their wedding plans are put on hold. Tom can't find a suitable position in Michigan, so he works in a sandwich shop, while Violet flourishes in her career. Soon their relationship is put to the test.

In typical Judd Apatow fashion, The Five-Year Engagement doesn't just make fun of feelings, it tries to understand them. Tom (Jason Segel) and Violet (Emily Blunt) are not caricatures, but rather three-dimensional people with insecurities and baggage they bring into the relationship. What is enormously refreshing for a romantic comedy doesn't help the audience to escape its own problems for two hours. The Five-Year Engagement is a love story for adults who know that love is nowhere near perfect.