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(500) Days of Summer

(500) Days of Summer

2009

First-time director Marc Webb (helmer of music videos for Hot Hot Heat and My Chemical Romance) brings us this unconventional love story: Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love. Girl doesn’t.

When Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a hapless greeting card copywriter and hopeless romantic, is blindsided after his girlfriend Summer (the brilliant and underrated Zooey Deschanel) dumps him. His mind shifts back and forth through various periods of their 500 days together to try to figure out where things went wrong.

This has got a killer soundtrack including The Smiths, Regina Spektor, Black Lips, Wolfmother and Simon & Garfunkel.

Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, Matthew Gray Gubler, Clark Gregg, Minka Kelly, Rachel Boston

Directed by Marc Webb (feature debut)

Written by Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber

Festivals & Awards Sundance Film Festival 2009

Romantic Comedy | 1hr 35mins | Rated (M) | contains low level offensive language | Origin: USA | Official Site »

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  •  4

    Andrew Hedley, Flicks.co.nz

    Andrew Hedley, Flicks.co.nz

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    This fun, refreshingly honest look at modern relationships for 20-somethings slides back and forth between key moments in the 500-day romance between idealistic Tom Hansen (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and the pretty but mysterious Summer Finn (Zooey Deschanel). Their highs and lows are highlighted by un-chronological storytelling, like when Tom’s ebullient dance routine immediately cuts forward hundreds of days to the poor guy in a heart-broken state of depression.

    The pop soundtrack is killer (The Smiths, The Black Lips, Wolfmother among others) and there’s plenty of visual flair, courtesy of veteran music video director Marc Webb. It’s filled with references to pop culture and cinema, even including a humorous nod to the chess scene from Bergman's The Seventh Seal. Tom and Summer running through an IKEA furniture store is reminiscent of the Louvre race in Godard’s Band of Outsiders, a paean to youthful vitality if ever there was.

    500 Days of Summer is an instantly accessible film, un-schmaltzy, with all the hooks and sunny choruses of a pop song. Los Angeles has never looked better. “This is not a love story,” warns the voiceover guy at the beginning of the movie. Nonetheless, it’s an attractive, original romantic comedy that could possibly hit close to home for a lot of you romantics.

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The people's reviews

47 reviews

  • Funny and Cute

     4

    munchkin

    Superstar (?)

    I loved it what more can I say great chick flick :)

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  • Great movie even if has Zooey Deschanel

     4

    bigspendakev

    Superstar (?)

    Rented this one a while back has the young lad frm third rock from the son in it better than expected not a fan of the mono-toned Zooey Deschanel if you can get over her voice then its one to watch.

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  • Best (Non) Rom-Com I've ever seen!

     5

    AaronG

    Nobody (?)

    I loved this film to pieces. It takes the normal romantic comedy formula and turns it on its head.

    The non-linear storytelling is also very refreshing and well used.

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  • (500) days of coolness

     5

    Emma-Kate

    Nobody (?)

    OME this has to be about the only romantic comedy where you dont know what happens until the very end. It was so so so so soooooooooooo funny I laughed out loud the whole movie. I clapped at the end like I had just seen a rock concert. I loved it so much that got the dvd when it came out and watch it often to put it in small words and to cut the words I LOVED IT so it will join the holiday on my list of rom com ledgends

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  • BEST ROMANCTIC COMEDY IVE SEEN IN MY LIFE

     5

    Matt

    Nobody (?)

    it amazing 5/5

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  • Luv the PUMA... Just kidding

     5

    Dennis & Sibble

    Nobody (?)

    It was an awesome movie luvd it 500 stars... I wanna c it again and again and again. woooooooohooooooooo!
    SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FUNNY!

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  • Hugely likeable movie

     4

    Marty

    Nobody (?)

    What a great debut from a director! The plot line was simple and effective, and a superb rendition of how a lot of us blokes tend to pointlessly chase and fret over entirely the wrong woman.

    But it's the tightly woven interplay between the leads, the look, sound, and feel of the movie which embellishes it. Even the perfume of the woman sitting next to me on the plane seemed to add to the experience as I watched. Now when are cinemas going to introduce that aromatherapy thing they've been talking about?

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  • WOOOOOOOOOOPOOOOOOOO

     1

    holly brown

    Nobody (?)

    this movie was actually quite boring ; who reviewd this and gave it 4stars? because its only like one star you nob (:

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  • (500) Days of Awful

     1

    Alix

    Nobody (?)

    This movie is not Romantic nor is it a Comedy.

    Cringe factor 99. For any girl who has been in a relationship with a pitiful clingy boyfriend, this is not pleasant.

    Yes, there are a few laughs and it may be enjoyable for the naive. If you have any sense of maturity in a relationship you will hate it.

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  • seems a lot of people like it not any of the 5 I wnr with

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    Tania

    Nobody (?)

    Basically a role reversal him a romantic her not but she still makes the first move etc etc basically I thought she was a bitch

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Press Reviews

  • Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

    Here is a rare movie that begins by telling us how it will end and is about how the hero has no idea why.
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  • Empire (UK)

     4

    Perfectly played, simultaneously serious and light, endlessly inventive, this is a strong contender for the most original date movie of the year. (Terrific) stuff.
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  • Hollywood Reporter

    The writing is often clever and the overall production playful and intelligent.
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  • Los Angeles Times

    Something seldom seen: an original romantic comedy.
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  • New York Times

    Slight, charming and refreshingly candid little picture.
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  • Total Film (UK)

     4

    Gordon-Levitt soars and Deschanel charms in a playful, witty, disordered telling of a fractured romance. Bringing fresh zing to a genre prone to predictability, Webb crafts a (not-in-) love story about feeling bad that’s infectiously good.
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  • USA Today

    Much like Annie Hall did for a previous generation, (500) Days of Summer may be the movie that best captures a contemporary romantic sensibility.
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  • Variety (USA)

    Boy gets girl and boy loses girl in convoluted, sometimes cloying but ultimately winning fashion in 500 Days of Summer.
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