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Overview

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Director:
Marc Webb
Writers (WGA):
Scott Neustadter (written by) &
Michael H. Weber (written by)
Contact:
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Release Date:
2 September 2009 (UK) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama | Romance more
Tagline:
Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love. Girl doesn't. more
Plot:
An offbeat romantic comedy about a woman who doesn't believe true love exists, and the young man who falls for her. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
(7 articles)
Sister Act: Zooey Deschanel digs 'Bones' in December
 (From Hitfix. 29 October 2009, 9:30 AM, PDT)
Mirror/Mirror — “88 Miles Per Hour”
 (From Atomic Popcorn. 27 September 2009, 6:25 PM, PDT)
User Comments:
A love story deftly built on unrequited love. more (173 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Joseph Gordon-Levitt ... Tom Hansen

Zooey Deschanel ... Summer Finn

Geoffrey Arend ... McKenzie

Chloe Moretz ... Rachel Hansen

Matthew Gray Gubler ... Paul

Clark Gregg ... Vance

Patricia Belcher ... Millie

Rachel Boston ... Alison

Minka Kelly ... Autumn - Girl at interview

Ian Reed Kesler ... Douche
Darryl Alan Reed ... Bus Driver
Valente Rodriguez ... Employee #1

Yvette Nicole Brown ... New Secretary

Nicole Vicius ... Partygoer

Natalie Boren ... Another Partygoer
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for sexual material and language.
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View content advisory for parents
Runtime:
95 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | French | Swedish
Color:
Color | Black and White (some sequences)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
USA:PG-13 (certificate #45018) | Australia:M | South Korea:15 | Singapore:PG | Ireland:15A | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | UK:12A | Japan:PG12 | Finland:S | Netherlands:AL | Hong Kong:IIA | Norway:A | Philippines:PG-13 (MTRCB) | Sweden:Btl | Brazil:12 | Argentina:13 | Mexico:B
Filming Locations:
Bradbury Building - 304 S. Broadway, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA more
Company:
Sneak Preview Entertainment more

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Trivia:
One thing that both Tom and Summer have in common is their love for "Bananafish." This is undoubtedly a reference to one of J.D. Salinger's "Nine Stories" (the first of the nine being "A Perfect Day for Bananafish"). Actress Zooey Deschanel who portrays Summer is herself named after another story by J.D. Salinger, "Franny & Zooey". more
Goofs:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the karaoke scene after Summer sings Sugartown the instrumentals are looped, but her voice is cut right after she starts singing the second verse, so we can hear the word "and..." but then nothing. more
Quotes:
Tom: Either she's an evil, emotionless, miserable human being, or... she's a robot. more
Movie Connections:
Spoofs Song of the South (1946) more
Soundtrack:
SUGAR TOWN more

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167 out of 209 people found the following comment useful.
A love story deftly built on unrequited love., 23 June 2009
9/10
Author: slowcloud from Miami, FL

I haven't seen a romance this touching since I was the same type of single sad sack as depicted by the hero of (500) Days of Summer.

Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) has his radar up for "the girl of his dreams" when he meets Summer (Zooey Deschanel). Too bad for Tom Summer is stuck on friends-with-benefits mode. Let the tension begin.

Director Marc Webb captures the feeling of innocent, naïve love expertly. Anyone who has taken the lyrics of the Smiths too closely to heart, would be moved by the idea of the person they are crushing on sing to them: "To die by your side/is such a heavenly way to die." No wonder Tom soon falls head over heels for this girl.

As events unfold out of sequence, you know all along Tom has fallen for a time bomb of a woman, and he can't even see the countdown. When that bomb finally blows up in his face, it unfolds with powerful simplicity-- no exposition or dialog, just two juxtaposed events that capture the heartache of reality hitting a person who sees a person through the filter of some deep-seeded emotions that where planted at too young an age.

So many romantic films nowadays concern themselves with cute ideas, take 'He's Just Not That Into You' or 'Serendipity' for example. Then there are movies like 'Knocked Up' where a pot-smoking, video-gaming playing narcissistic slob tries to turn his life around to try and be a father. These movies forget about real people. Who cares about stock or cartoonish characters in love. The couple in (500) Days of Summer have true chemistry. There are some beautiful, subtle moments of tenderness as well some heart-rending moments of disconnectedness between the two that never comes across as heavy-handed. The movie constantly reminds you that these are two different people with different ideas of a relationship, yet they stubbornly continue their dating, and they remain lovable all the same.

An omniscient narrator sets the film up early on by noting "this is not a love story," but few films ever capture the sensation of falling in love as well as this movie does.

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