Crazy Stupid Love

Clever dialogue, endearing characters and plenty of wit helps make this ensemble romantic comedy stand out without being too cloying.
Directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, (who also worked on the Jim Carrey-Ewan McGregor comedy I Love You Phillip Morris), with a script by Dan Fogelberg, this romantic comedy explores the idea of soul-mates through a series of romances between three different generations.
The film wastes no time kicking off. During a dinner, Emily (Julianne Moore) tells husband Cal (Steve Carrell) that she wants a divorce. Cal is devastated, moves out and goes to bars for solace. Big time player Jacob (Ryan Gosling) takes Cal under his wing, helps him dress up and soon Cal is scoring with the ladies.
Of course, since this is an American movie where the family unit is sacred, Cal pines for Emily, but their wrong decisions keep them apart.
Toss in another couple of crushes and romances, between Cal’s son (Jonah Bobo) and their babysitter (Analeigh Tipton), who has a crush on Cal, while Casanova Jacob also has an eye out for Hannah (Emma Stone), and it’s a stewing pot of trouble.

Synopsis:

Cal Weaver gets the surprise of his life when he learns that his wife Emily cheated on him with a coworker, David Lindhagen and wants a divorce. After moving into his own apartment, Cal begins frequenting a bar night after night, talking loudly about his divorce, until he attracts the attention of a young man named Jacob Palmer. Jacob is a womanizer who successfully beds women each night, although a young woman named Hannah recently rejected his advances. Taking pity on Cal, Jacob agrees to teach him how to pick up women. Jacob takes Cal shopping, outfitting him with an entirely new wardrobe and begins teaching him the art of seduction. As they spend their evenings at the bar together, a friendship begins to blossom.

On Cal's first attempt to seduce a woman he meets a teacher named Kate. She initially rejects his awkward advances, but eventually they sleep together at his apartment. In the following weeks, Cal manages to successfully seduce multiple women, although he remains troubled by his crumbling marriage. He only sees Emily again at a parent teacher conference at his 13 year-old son Robbie's school. They almost reconcile but the teacher they are meeting with turns out to be Kate, and Emily learns of Cal's recent womanizing. She leaves in disgust and begins dating David.

Rurouni Kenshin

Synopsis: Former legendary assassin Kenshin Himura (Takeru Sato) has now become a wandering samurai. Offerring aid and protecting those in need as atonement for his past deeds. During this time Kenshin Himura comes across and aides Kaoru Kamiya (Emi Takei). Her father opened the Kamiya Kasshin-ryu, a kendo school located in Tokyo and Kaoru is now an instructor there. Kaoru then invites Kenshin to stay at her dojo. Their relationship develops further, but Kenshin is still haunted by his violent past.

Plot: Rurouni Kenshin takes place during the early Meiji era in Japan, telling the story of a wanderer named Himura Kenshin, formerly known as the assassin "Hitokiri Battōsai". After participating in the Bakumatsu war, Kenshin wanders the countryside of Japan offering protection and aid to those in need as atonement for the murders he once committed as an assassin. When arriving in Tokyo in the 11th year of Meiji (1878), he meets a young woman named Kamiya Kaoru, who is in the middle of a fight with a murderer - who claims to be the Hitokiri Battōsai - tarnishing the name of the swordsmanship school that she teaches. Kenshin decides to help her and defeats the fake Battōsai. After discovering that Kenshin is the real Battōsai, Kaoru offers him a place to stay at her dojo noting that he is peace-loving and not cold-hearted, as his reputation implies. Kenshin accepts and begins to establish lifelong relationships with many people such as Sagara Sanosuke, a former Sekihō Army member; Myōjin Yahiko, an orphan from a samurai family; and a doctor named Takani Megumi. However, he also deals with his fair share of enemies, new and old, including the former leader from the Oniwabanshū, Shinomori Aoshi and his rival from the Bakumatsu Saitō Hajime.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - 2012

Bilbo Baggins is swept into a quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the fearsome dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior, Thorin Oakenshield. Their journey will take them into the Wild; through treacherous lands swarming with Goblins and Orcs, deadly Wargs and Giant Spiders, Shapeshifters and Sorcerers. Although their goal lies to the East and the wastelands of the Lonely Mountain first they must escape the goblin tunnels, where Bilbo meets the creature that will change his life forever ... Gollum. Here, alone with Gollum, on the shores of an underground lake, the unassuming Bilbo Baggins not only discovers depths of guile and courage that surprise even him, he also gains possession of Gollum's "precious" ring that holds unexpected and useful qualities ... A simple, gold ring that is tied to the fate of all Middle-earth in ways Bilbo cannot begin to know.