Celeste and Jesse Forever

(USA, 2011, 91 mins)

Executive Producers: Rashida Jones, Will McCormack
Producers: Jennifer Todd, Suzanne Todd, Lee Nelson
Screenwriters: Rashida Jones, Will McCormack
Cinematographer: David Lanzenberg
Editor: Yana Gorskaya
Music: Zach Cowie, Sunny Levine
Cast: Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, Chris Messina, Ari Graynor, Eric Christian Olsen, Will McCormack, Elijah Wood, Emma Roberts

Celeste and Jesse are having as hard a time falling out of love as most people have falling in. A Los Angeles couple who married young, they are now going through an “amicable” divorce. Their goal is to remain best friends in spite of this rift, but in Lee Toland Krieger’s fresh, delightful romantic comedy, that proves easier said than done.

 Rising star Rashida Jones, who co-wrote the screenplay with Will McCormack, is the overachieving businesswoman Celeste. Andy Samberg is the witty, underachieving Jesse. Their patent chemistry makes their growing estrangement all the more poignant, as well as funny, in this beguiling and surprising anti-love story.

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