Funny, family drama with "photoshopping"

Rating: 8/10 (21 October 2014)

This was really good for a rom-com, just different and edgy enough with some really funny moments via Steve Carell alongside bittersweet true life drama to make it work for me. There's also a great cast of secondary characters and damn Ryan Gosling... "photo-shopped." He plays professional bachelor Jacob Palmer who helps a newly separated Cal (Carell) navigate the singles scene after his wife (Julianne Moore) asks for a divorce and his perfect life crumbles.
I laughed out loud several times here (the wallet while clothes shopping) and liked how this ended up being a totally different movie than what it started out as. The last 20 minutes are just hilarious, including a big twist (I didn't see coming) and the fight. "Keep it in the family okay?" 5/19/14