Crazy, Stupid, Love -- More Important Than the Title Might Suggest

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Spending almost two hours in the dark with Steve Carell, Julianne Moore, Ryan Gosling, and Emma Stone, enjoying their trials and travails, their growth and their romance, is really so much fun that you're to be forgiven if you don't realize, by the time you walk out, that you've just seen a very important film.I wouldn't think of spoiling the big reveals of the movie for you.  But let me let you in on the worst-kept secret of Hollywood Romance Movies: they all follow a formula.  It's such a common formula that most of us can recite it by heart without even knowing it.  We are like Ralph Macchio in Karate Kid. We've seen it so many times that we know it by rote without necessarily knowing that we know it.More...