(500) Days of Summer

2009 "This is not a love story. This is a story about love."
7.7| 1h35m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 17 July 2009 Released
Producted By: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: https://www.foxmovies.com/movies/500-days-of-summer
Synopsis

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.

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Hottoceame The Age of Commercialism
GrimPrecise I'll tell you why so serious
Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.
Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny
cherylfoodvincent I didn't think it was a real good movie. Where were all actors and actress that have been famous for years. I won't watch it again
willeasyer Before today I've never got the chance to watch it and focus on it from beginning to end, so I needed to give it a nice watch because I genuinely identify it plus I love the smiths, and I've been waiting to find that sparkle of true love since ever. Besides the obviosity of its visual beauty, excellent directing, writing and music it's a movie that describes what's like to be in love in a non conventional way, where the characters aren't the main subject. It's mainly about love and all phases of relationships with all its ups and downs and in such a stunning detail starting from the secret crush to honeymoon phase until reality catches up. It's about true love, and how unexpected and random it is, it can never be planned it just happens. That's why it touched me on a personal level if a relationship is over it means it wasn't the right one yet the most important thing is moving on and focusing on oneself and love will come at the right time without rush and that's what happened to Tom.
Galina Finally, the day has arrived and I can happily say that I have lived to see something that I almost lost my hope to see - a truly original, clever, beautiful, creative, funny and moving, modern American romantic comedy. Nothing is new in this world. It is impossible to come up with the new plot about love or possibility of love, or expectation of love or losing it but it is possible to look at the old story with a fresh eye and to make the movie as enchanting as 500 Days of Summer. The first time director Marc Webb has started on a very high note. His movie is charming (I know I use this word a lot but it describes 500 days perfectly). It combines many different techniques and succeeds adorably in following two leads and their 500 days of getting together and gradually drifting apart. Not often, I see the movie that makes me smile from the beginning to the end. I felt like that big silly grin was glued to my face and I did not mind at all. It is nothing Webb did that I have not seen before. He applies the broken narrative and jumping back and forward in time. His use of split screen technique creates the best scene in the film with many memorable scenes. He inserts a musical number that seems to come from a Bollywood movie and changes the real world into animation. Yes, we have seen this all before but together these tricks have mixed in something magical, delicately bittersweet and funny without being stupid, loud, vulgar, and pushy.The big part of the magic is without a doubt an undeniable palpable chemistry between two leads, both known for their previous performances in the independent movies. Zooey Deschanel (Summer) was the best part of All the Real Girls (2003). As for Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Tom), now, eight years after 500 days of Summer, he has become one of the best actors of his generation.Marc Webb's debut feature generated many positive reviews, and it deserves them. Time will tell if 500 Days of Summer becomes Annie Hall for the modern time. I believe it is that good. There were few things that I did not like very much, for example a clichéd smart-alecky rather annoying character of pre-teen sister of Tom. Nevertheless, the entire movie is so wonderful that I don't want to nit-pick and would recommend it highly.P.S. Wherever you are, Jenny Beckman, I want to thank you for having inspired this movie.
Neonfinity 500 Days of Summer is a 2009 film directed by Marc Webb and stars Joseph Gordon Levitt and Zooey Deschanel. The film is distributed by 20th Century Fox under their "Searchlight" division, being labeled as a Dramatic "Rom-Com". I've seen the film yesterday and will give my observations and opinions to you. 500 Days tells the nonlinear tale of Tom's seemingly magical relationship with a girl named Summer. Entangling in Fate, Coincidence, and True Love, their relationship goes through leaps and bounds in terms of events and all goes south. Also, Richard McGonagle plays Morgan Freeman as a narrator. The characters in 500 Days are all hipsters working in an office. I'll give the film credit for giving the two leads chemistry that is very fitting for the film's emotional range. I couldn't exactly get into the Tom (JGL) character since he didn't feel like a good enough audience surrogate, though the narrative structure isn't to blame, maybe it is the writing. And Zooey Deschanel does a good job playing Summer, being an a good and equal counterpart to JGL.500 Days of Summer felt half-and-half for me. I was completely fine with the cinematography as some shots and scenes are well done. But nothing about the film went above & beyond for me which other indie romance films like Punch-Drunk Love and Eternal Sunshine did. Plus this breaks the filmmaking rule of never showing a better film in your own movie, which was The Graduate. As soon as our two characters were watching it, I said "Yeah, I should be watching that instead."500 Days has it's feet planted in the themes of Love, Fate, Coincidence, and even Inevitability. Most of them play a part in the end and was disappointed the way it turned out, making the entire movie and concept into a pun. The movie felt to have a more somber mood than it should have since I would have liked it a little more if they had more fun with the script, acting, and tone in general. After doing light research on the film, it certainly has found an audience. Kids will not be into this seeing as the concepts and story might not be understandable to them. People growing into adults will certainly have something to appreciate here. No matter what your opinion is on 500 Days is, I will respect it. Overall, I give 500 Days of Summer a… 5/10