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The Last Five Years
The Last 5 Years is a musical chronicling a love affair and marriage taking place over a five year period. Jamie Wellerstein (Jordan) is a young, talented up and coming novelist who falls in love with Cathy Hiatt (Kendrick), a struggling actress. Their story is told almost entirely through song. All of Cathy’s songs begin at the end of their marriage and move backwards in time to the beginning of their love affair, while Jamie’s songs start at the beginning of their affair and move forward to the end of their marriage. They meet in the center when Jamie proposes
10 February 1960, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
20 November 1984, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
23 August 1982, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
14 April 1983, Aurora, Ohio, USA
February 23, 2016
[The filmmakers have] crafted a love story so rife with cliché and stereotype that I was completely disinterested in the central break-up of two people I despised.
April 13, 2015
Anna Kendrick, of all-round-awesome fame, is singing again in this adaptation of an off-Broadway musical.
May 26, 2016
The two leads manage to carry the day through sheer gumption.
December 18, 2015
Kendrick in particular has never had a better showcase. She's always been a vivid screen presence, but when she sings she's electric.
April 02, 2016
It feels like a music video that refuses to end.
December 31, 2015
The unbalanced nature of the adaptation makes for a basically unsatisfying experience (Jamie, a jerk, gets his way with everything, and Cathy, a sweetheart, doesn't), but there are moments of real delight in the movie ...
February 26, 2015
It doesn't help that the songs, while solid, become repetitive in melody. And there's not a home run in the bunch. I walked out humming ... nothing from this movie.
March 01, 2016
The chemistry between Kendrick and Jordan is what stitches the film together and makes for an entertaining if maudlin watch.
February 19, 2015
Kendrick and Jordan seem too squeaky-clean to convey the full weight of the characters' psychological baggage, yet LaGravenese's balanced, unpretentious direction allows the material to resonate all the same.
December 17, 2015
LaGravenese doesn't seem to have a particular vision for how to shoot or tell this particular story, so he just aims for the most straightforward method possible most of the time, and that ultimately cripples the film in ways it can't recover from.
February 20, 2015
Star Anna Kendrick's appeal is stretched to its limit here, and her lover Jeremy Jordan's character is hard to take in large doses.
