6.2
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The Five-Year Engagement (2012)
The Five-Year Engagement (2012)
Overview
Exactly one year after Tom meets Violet, he surprises her with a wedding ring. By all accounts, Tom and Violet are destined for their happily ever after. However, this engaged couple just keep getting tripped up on the long walk down the aisle.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Positive
Viewer Rating
6.2
Overview
Exactly one year after Tom meets Violet, he surprises her with a wedding ring. By all accounts, Tom and Violet are destined for their happily ever after. However, this engaged couple just keep getting tripped up on the long walk down the aisle.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
The film explores the personal challenges of a long engagement, focusing on the couple's struggle to balance individual career ambitions with their relationship commitment and navigating modern gender roles. Its resolution emphasizes personal communication and compromise rather than promoting a specific political ideology, leading to a neutral rating.
The movie features a visibly diverse supporting cast, though its central roles are not explicit race or gender swaps of traditionally white characters. The narrative focuses on a heterosexual white couple, and it does not critically portray traditional identities or explicitly center DEI themes.
Secondary
The Five-Year Engagement includes a positively depicted gay couple, Alex and Bill, whose stable relationship and wedding are integrated into the narrative without their identity being a source of conflict or stereotype. Their portrayal is affirming, presenting them as valued friends and a normal, loving couple within the film's world.
The film 'The Five-Year Engagement' does not include any transsexual characters or themes. Its narrative focuses exclusively on the romantic relationship and life challenges of a heterosexual couple, with no elements pertaining to transgender identity or experiences.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The Five-Year Engagement is an original romantic comedy with characters created specifically for the film. There is no prior source material, historical figures, or legacy characters from previous installments to establish a canonical gender for any character. Therefore, no gender swaps occur.
The Five-Year Engagement is an original film with no prior source material, historical figures, or established legacy characters. Therefore, no characters exist who were canonically or historically established as a different race.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.2
5.9
Critic Ratings
6.4
6.2
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