500 Days of Summer
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Tom, greeting-card writer and hopeless romantic, is caught completely off-guard when his girlfriend, Summer, suddenly dumps him. He reflects on their 500 days together to try to figure out where their love affair went sour, and in doing so, Tom rediscovers his true passions in life.
What critics thought
Broadly well-received on release and now considered a cult classic, the film won over most critics with its non-linear structure and the chemistry between its leads — but a vocal minority argued that its hipster-quirky surface masked something far more conventional underneath, and that Summer herself is frustratingly underwritten. The gap between its popular reputation and those dissenting notices is part of what makes it worth discussing.
“Most romantic comedies have half a dozen situations at best: Meet Cute, Infatuation, Pop Song Montage, Contrived Mix-Up, Angry Breakup, and Final Clinch. (500) Days of Summer is about the many unclassifiable moments in between. It's a feat of star acting, and it helps make 500 Days not just bitter or sweet but everything in between”
Owen Gleiberman·Entertainment Weekly
“For all its rhetorical whimsy and hipster dressings, (500) Days of Summer is a thoroughly conservative affair, as culturally and romantically status quo as any Jennifer Aniston vehicle.”
NPR
“synthetic and derivative, a movie that's popping with perceptions while searching for a style.”
Joe Morgenstern·The Wall Street Journal
“let down by sitcom clichés, and by being weirdly incurious about the inner life of its female lead.”
Peter Bradshaw·The Guardian
“Boy meets girl, boy loses girl. It's been done to emo death. That's why the sublimely smart-sexy-joyful-sad (500) Days of Summer hits you like a blast of pure romantic oxygen”
Peter Travers·Rolling Stone
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Cast & Crew
DirectorMarc Webb
StarringJoseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, Geoffrey Arend, Chloë Grace Moretz, Matthew Gray Gubler
ComposerMychael Danna, Rob Simonsen
500 Days of Summer
Tom, greeting-card writer and hopeless romantic, is caught completely off-guard when his girlfriend, Summer, suddenly dumps him. He reflects on their 500 days together to try to figure out where their love affair went sour, and in doing so, Tom rediscovers his true passions in life.
What critics thought
Broadly well-received on release and now considered a cult classic, the film won over most critics with its non-linear structure and the chemistry between its leads — but a vocal minority argued that its hipster-quirky surface masked something far more conventional underneath, and that Summer herself is frustratingly underwritten. The gap between its popular reputation and those dissenting notices is part of what makes it worth discussing.
“Most romantic comedies have half a dozen situations at best: Meet Cute, Infatuation, Pop Song Montage, Contrived Mix-Up, Angry Breakup, and Final Clinch. (500) Days of Summer is about the many unclassifiable moments in between. It's a feat of star acting, and it helps make 500 Days not just bitter or sweet but everything in between”
Owen Gleiberman·Entertainment Weekly
“For all its rhetorical whimsy and hipster dressings, (500) Days of Summer is a thoroughly conservative affair, as culturally and romantically status quo as any Jennifer Aniston vehicle.”
NPR
“synthetic and derivative, a movie that's popping with perceptions while searching for a style.”
Joe Morgenstern·The Wall Street Journal
“let down by sitcom clichés, and by being weirdly incurious about the inner life of its female lead.”
Peter Bradshaw·The Guardian
“Boy meets girl, boy loses girl. It's been done to emo death. That's why the sublimely smart-sexy-joyful-sad (500) Days of Summer hits you like a blast of pure romantic oxygen”
Peter Travers·Rolling Stone
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Cast & Crew
DirectorMarc Webb
StarringJoseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, Geoffrey Arend, Chloë Grace Moretz, Matthew Gray Gubler
ComposerMychael Danna, Rob Simonsen
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