Synopsis
Celeste and Jesse met in high school and got married young. They laugh at the same jokes and finish each other’s sentences. They are forever linked in their friends’ minds as the perfect couple – she, a high-powered businesswoman and budding novelist; he, a free spirit who keeps things from getting boring. Their only problem is that they have decided to get divorced. Can their perfect relationship withstand this minor setback?
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Cast
- Rashida JonesCeleste Martin
- Andy SambergJesse Abrams
- Ari GraynorBeth
- Eric Christian OlsenTucker
- Chris MessinaPaul
- Emma RobertsRiley Banks
- Elijah WoodScott
- Rebecca DayanVeronica
- Janel ParrishSavannah
- Sarah HaskinsParent
Recommendations
- 91
Entertainment Weekly
I will say that it's been a while since a romantic comedy mustered this much charm by looking this much like life. - 75
Slant Magazine
An honest and breezily melancholic film, thoroughly clear-sighted in its intentions and ideas and bravely committed to the emotional rigors of its central relationship. - 75
The Playlist
Forever doesn't deviate terribly from the can-we-be-friends-after-sex playbook, but it rarely opts for hysterics or contrivance to push our leads along, so long as you can swallow the amicability with which they initially divorce. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Jones is great in the part, even if this movie doesn't quite prove she should be carrying films on her own, and the actress makes her character's clumsy heartache feel like more than a plot point. - 70
Time
It ends up being surprisingly touching, despite the fact that you start rooting for the cloyingly cute Celeste and Jesse to break up almost from the first frame. - 60
Time Out
Jones writes herself a couple of powerful scenes and plays them well, but she and director Lee Toland Krieger don't find many memorable uses for Samberg as her blandly schlubby hubby. - 50
Variety
Celeste & Jesse Forever earns points for bucking formula, but its fusion of snark and sincerity has a calculated slickness that rings increasingly hollow. - 50
The A.V. Club
If nothing else, the shaggy romantic comedy Celeste And Jesse Forever establishes that Parks And Recreation's Rashida Jones is a movie star.
