Dan Fogelman’s hit Hulu series Paradise recently wrapped its second season. Steve Carell is back on screens in HBO’s Rooster. Ryan Gosling’s Project Hail Mary is in theaters. So naturally, I’ve been thinking a lot about the 2011 rom-com, Crazy, Stupid, Love, which brought those three talented gents together. Over a decade later, Crazy, Stupid, Love is still one of my go-to comfort watches. It follows 40-something suburban dad and husband Cal Weaver (Carell) in crisis after his wife Emily (Julianne Moore) reveals she cheated on him and wants a divorce. (Sidenote: Between this and Rooster, I need people to stop divorcing characters played by THE Steve Carell!) Anyway, dreamy womanizer Jacob Palmer (Gosling) steps in to give Cal a crash-course in confidence and modern-day dating. But as Cal 2.0 emerges, Jacob meets Hannah (Emma Stone) — a girl who makes him reevaluate his aversion to commitment — and the film’s storylines converge, building up to an iconic Fogelman twist.
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