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(500) Days of Summer

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(500) Days of Summer

Year

2009

Running time

96 min.

Country

United States

Director

Marc Webb

Screenwriter

Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber

Cast

Music

Mychael Danna, Rob Simonsen

Cinematography

Eric Steelberg

Producer

Fox Searchlight

Genre

Romance. Comedy. Drama | Romantic Comedy. Independent Film (US)

Synopsis

An offbeat romantic comedy about a woman (Deschanel) who doesn't believe true love exists, and the young man (Gordon-Levitt) who falls for her. Tom believes, even in this cynical modern world, in the notion of a transforming, cosmically destined, lightning-strikes-once kind of love. Summer doesn’t. Not at all. But that doesn’t stop Tom from going after her, again and again, like a modern Don Quixote, with all his might and courage. Suddenly, Tom is in love not just with a lovely, witty, intelligent woman –but with the very idea of Summer, the very idea of a love that still has the power to shock the heart and stop the world. The fuse is lit on Day 1 – when Tom, a would-be architect turned sappy greeting card writer encounters Summer, his boss’s breezy, beautiful new secretary, fresh off the plane from Michigan. Though seemingly out of his league, Tom soon discovers he shares plenty in common with Summer. By Day 31, things are moving ahead, albeit “casually.” By Day 32, Tom is irreparably smitten, living in a giddy, fantastical world of Summer on his mind. By Day 185, things are in serious limbo -- but not without hope. And as the story winds backwards and forwards through Tom and Summer’s on-again, off-again, sometimes blissful, often tumultuous dalliance–all of which adds up to a kaleidoscopic portrait of why, and how, we still struggle so laughably, cringingly hard to make sense of love and to hopefully make it real.

USA Release Date: July 17, 2009.

Awards: 2009: 2 Nominations for Golden Globes: Movie - Comedy or Musical, Actor (Gordon-Lewit)

2009: Independent Spirit Awards: Best Screenplay. 3 Nominations

2009: NBR - National Board of Review: 2 Awards, including one of the Top 10 Best Films

2009: Satellite Awards: Nominated for Best Actress Comedy (Zooey Deschanel)

2009: 2 Nominations for Critics' Choice Awards: Best Comedy Movie, Original Screenplay

2009: Chicago Film Critics Awards: Nominated for Most Promising Filmmaker

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