While leaving the clinic, Cindy demands a divorce. Feinberg, who fires Cindy and kicks them out. Visibly upset, Cindy voices that she thought he offered the position because of her qualifications.īack at the motel, an annoyed Dean finds the note and shows up drunk at the clinic where he has a heated argument with Cindy. Feinberg recommends that Cindy get an apartment instead of moving her family, suggesting that they could keep each other company during the weekdays if she's lonely. She takes the car and leaves a note for Dean. Early in the morning, Cindy is called in for work. They start fighting and she locks him outside the bedroom. The two make up and get drunk but Cindy is displeased when Dean asks if she wants to have another child with him. Frustrated with Dean's lack of ambition, she questions him during dinner which leads to another argument. Stopping by a liquor store, Cindy has an awkward encounter when running into Bobby, which causes an ensuing argument in the car between her and Dean.Īt the motel, Dean repeatedly tries to seduce Cindy but she rebuffs him.
Despite Cindy's reluctance, Dean insists on a romantic getaway at a motel to relax and attempt to rekindle their relationship. One day, their missing family dog is found dead by the side of the road due to Cindy having left a gate unlocked, which further strains the couple's marriage. Meanwhile, Dean paints houses for a living while struggling with alcohol. Feinberg, had just offered her to join him at a different clinic in the near future. Cindy is now a nurse at a clinic where her boss, Dr. Cindy and Dean get married.įive years later, the couple lives in rural Pennsylvania with their daughter, Frankie. Dean comforts and reassures her that he wants to raise the child together. She opts for an abortion but cancels the procedure at the last moment. A jealous Bobby soon finds out and violently assaults Dean.Ĭindy discovers she is pregnant and tells Dean he is unlikely to be the father. He gives her his number but she never calls however, they coincidentally meet again on a bus and begin dating shortly afterwards. Some time later, while Dean is delivering furniture to a nursing home in Pennsylvania, he runs into Cindy, who is visiting her grandmother. This causes an angered Cindy to break up with him. Her boyfriend, a fellow student named Bobby, brings her back to his place, where the two have intercourse, but he ejaculates inside her without her consent. Cindy ( Michelle Williams) is an aspiring doctor studying pre-med while living with her bickering parents and caring for her grandmother in Pennsylvania. The following is a linear summary of the plot.ĭean ( Ryan Gosling) is a hopeless-romantic high-school dropout, working for a moving company in Brooklyn. The film is presented in a nonlinear narrative, jumping between the beginning of Dean and Cindy's relationship and their marriage several years later.
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