(500) Days of Summer

2009

95 mins

Directed by Marc Webb
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First-time director Marc Webb (helmer of music videos for Hot Hot Heat and My Chemical Romance) brings us this unconventional... More

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.

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(500) Days of Summer | Ratings & Reviews

86_%230 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes® rating
84_%397,944 reviews
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"Boy gets girl and boy loses girl in convoluted, sometimes cloying but ultimately winning fashion in 500 Days of Summer."

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Variety

"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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USA Today

"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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Total Film

"Slight, charming and refreshingly candid little picture."

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The New York Times

"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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Roger Ebert

"Something seldom seen: an original romantic comedy."

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Los Angeles Times

"The writing is often clever and the overall production playful and intelligent."

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Hollywood Reporter

"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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