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.

Directed by
Peyton Reed

Cast
Vince Vaughn - Gary Grobowski
Jennifer Aniston - Brooke Meyers
Jon Favreau - Johnny O
Joey Lauren - Adams Maddie
Ann-Margret Wendy - Meyers
Jason Bateman - Riggleman
Judy Davis - Marilyn Dean
Peter Billingsley - Andrew
Cole Hauser - Lupus Grobowski
Vincent D'Onofrio - Dennis Grobowski
John Michael Higgins - Richard Meyers
Justin Long - Christopher

Production Co.
Wild West Picture Show

Produced by
Stuart Besser
Peter Billingsley
Vince Vaughn

Studio
Universal Pictures

Writer
Jeremy Garelick
Jay Lavender

Music
Jon Brion