The Break-Up Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Plot

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Plot

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.

Pushed to the breaking-up point after their latest "why can't you do this one little thing for me?" argument, art dealer Brooke (Aniston) calls it quits with her boyfriend, Gary (Vaughn), who hosts bus tours of Chicago. What follows is a series of remedies, war tactics, overtures and underminings suggested by the former couple's friends, confidantes and the occasional total stranger. When neither ex is willing to move out of the condo they used to share, the only solution is to continue living as hostile roommates until somebody caves.

But somewhere between protesting the pool table in the living room, the dirty clothes stacked in the kitchen cupboards and the sports played at sleep-killing volume in the middle of night, Brooke begins to realize that what she may be really fighting for isn't so much the place but the person.

Comedy Romance

Top Cast

The lead cast starring in The Break-Up.

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  Vince Vaughn

  Animal Friends, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

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  Jennifer Aniston

  Just Go With It, Out of My Mind

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  Joey Lauren Adams

  Greedy People, Big Daddy

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  Ann-Margret

  Santa Clause 3: Escape Clause, Going in Style

• J
  Judy Davis

  The Dressmaker, Gaudi Afternoon

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  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Lift, The Magnificent Seven

• J
  Jon Favreau

  The Wolf of Wall Street, Term Life

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  Cole Hauser

  Olympus Has Fallen, Panama

• J
  John Michael Higgins

  Status Update, Fired Up

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  Justin Long

  It's a Wonderful Knife, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

Crew Behind the Film

The The Break-Up behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

The film's director Peyton Reed last directed Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Ant-Man and the Wasp. The film's writer Vince Vaughn last wrote Christmas With the Campbells.

Director

Peyton Reed

Screenwriters

Vince Vaughn
Jeremy Garelick
Jay Lavender

Producers

Mary Parent
Scott Stuber
Vince Vaughn

Production Details

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Key Facts

• Based on an orignal idea by Vince Vaughn.

Production Updates for The Break-Up

Dec 2004

Completed

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