Academy Award winner Russell Crow stars with Salma Hayek in the passionate story of two lovers swept up in an intense relationship, a man and a woman who cannot live with-or without-each other in Breaking Up. Struggling photographer Steve (Crowe) and schoolteacher Monica (Hayek) discover the exciting once-in-a-lifetime romance that everyone dreams about. He even quits smoking, and she abandons her obsession with her weight. But their idyllic affair turns tempestuous-over and over again-with Steve feeling stifled and Monica burdened. Caught between pleasure and pain, satisfaction and frustration, Steve and Monica cannot stay together but cannot separate, leaving them trapped in a bitter cycle of making up and Breaking Up.