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  • 2006
  • PG-13
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2006
  • PG-13
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 46 m

Summary Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston star in The Break-Up, which starts where most romantic comedies end: after boy and girl have met, fallen in love, moved in to start their happily-ever-after -- and right when they wind up driving each other crazy. (Universal Pictures)

Directed By: Peyton Reed

Written By: Jeremy Garelick, Jay Lavender, Vince Vaughn

  • 2006
  • PG-13
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2006
  • PG-13
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 46 m
The Break-Up
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 37 Critic Reviews
45
User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 158 User Ratings
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Summary Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston star in The Break-Up, which starts where most romantic comedies end: after boy and girl have met, fallen in love, moved in to start their happily-ever-after -- and right when they wind up driving each other crazy. (Universal Pictures)

Directed By: Peyton Reed

Written By: Jeremy Garelick, Jay Lavender, Vince Vaughn

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 37 Critic Reviews
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19% Positive
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65% Mixed
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16% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 37 Critic Reviews
45
19% Positive
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65% Mixed
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16% Negative
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75
Newly minted celebrity couple Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston don't have many opportunities to demonstrate their romantic chemistry in Peyton Reed's funny, heart-wrenching The Break-Up, but they still give what may be the best performances of their careers.
By Jack Mathews FULL REVIEW
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Vaughn and Favreau are so money, just like they were in "Swingers."
By Peter Travers FULL REVIEW

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8.2
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20% Mixed
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7% Negative
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8.2
73% Positive
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20% Mixed
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7% Negative
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Maxthor
Sep 24, 2023
Despite numerous inexplicable setups and plot twists along the way that leaves the audience bewildered and puzzled, at least The Break-Up conveys a relatively real message: that life is not always as beautiful as it appears in movies, and sometimes, that might just be better.
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50
Since the scenes where they're together are so much less convincing than the ones where they fall apart, watching the movie is like being on a double-date from hell.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
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Peyton Reed's The Break-Up proves there is nothing particularly funny or charming about two people splitting up, even if the couple is played by Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston.
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Audiences expecting a good time will instead be rewarded with wildly unsympathetic lead characters and uncomfortably long stretches without a laugh in sight.
By Michael Rechtshaffen FULL REVIEW
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Is The Break-Up worth your time? Let's put it this way: Whenever Vaughn is onscreen, it is. When he's not, it ain't. The movie's a comedy, but it's also about a breakup, so it gets a bit maudlin toward the end.
By Luke Y. Thompson FULL REVIEW
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It's not a good sign when a movie is called The Break-Up and you can't wait for the couple to split so they'll get some relief from one another, and give the audience some relief from them.
By Joe Morgenstern FULL REVIEW
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DawdlingPoet
Nov 27, 2021
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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archibaldswife
Mar 11, 2019
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inaneswine
Nov 14, 2017
A great cast giving great performances doesn't make up for a daft script. It takes a long time to settle into and ultimately becomes quite tolerable, but it doesn't really have all that much to say. Also, Justin Long needed a bigger part, he was the most hysterical thing in the film.
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Robwinz
Aug 7, 2020
The Break-Up is a very boring Comedy/Romance movie. The movie's got a very basic story, very boring characters, not enough good humour, bad pacing and it gets boring very fast.
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Scraper
Nov 22, 2018
Movies like this and the Hangover, etc, look to take common life situations and amplify them for comedy's sake. The Break-Up comes off as cruel. A couple chuckles can't save the fact that both these characters were written either mean or dumb. Vaughn, for some baffling reason, portrays a mentally abusive creep who, to the rational, semi-experienced boyfriend, comes off as utterly tone deaf. He goes from zero to out of his damn mind in no time flat. This movie was horrible.
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Production Company Universal Pictures, Mosaic, Wild West Picture Show Productions
Release Date Jun 2, 2006
Duration 1 h 46 m
Rating PG-13
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Tagline An Ex-Rated Comedy
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Awards

Teen Choice Awards
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
People's Choice Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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