(500) Days of Summer (2009)

aka: 500 Days of Summer

Romance / Comedy / Drama

1 hr. 35 min.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel star in the boy-meets-girl story of an unpredictable no-holds-barred love affair.

Rated PG-13 for sexual material and language

Directed by: Marc Webb

Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, Geoffrey Arend, Chloe Grace Moretz, Matthew Gray Gubler

Theatrical Release Date: 7/17/2009

Release Type: Limited

U.S. Box Office: $32,297,623

Video/DVD Release Date: 12/22/2009

Distributor: Fox Searchlight Pictures

Country: USA

Language: English

Offsite: IMDB | Official Site

CRITIC	RATING	QUOTE
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert	9	...a delightful comedy, alive with invention...
Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips	7	...a pleasant summer-weight diversion...
E! Pete Paras	6	...this might be a nice way to avoid a hot summer day. Just expect to fall in like, not love with this story.
filmcritic.com Bill Gibron	7	While perhaps a tad too quirky for its own good, this is still one of the best, most insightful romantic comedies in a very long time.
Slant Magazine Sara Schieron	6	...a charmer of both semi-classic and partially derivative proportions.
Rolling Stone Peter Travers	8	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.
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman	10	...enchantingly original and romantic...
New York Times A. O. Scott	8	...winningly seductive...
Los Angeles Times Michael Ordoña	9	...deftly navigates the neural tightropes of a passionate love affair in a beautiful and original way.
People Leah Rozen	7	Here's the hipster romance for the summer.
Village Voice Robert Wilonsky	7	...like a love story in a blender. What is unexpected is the sincerity beneath the modest conceit that, yup, love hurts.
Onion AV Club Scott Tobias	6	In its brightest moments, (500) Days Of Summer delves honestly and insightfully into the mysteries of love and romantic chemistry, and how elusive a connection can be. At its worst, the film is like 27 Dresses for indie types who prefer The Smiths to Bryan Adams; it isn’t much different than the cutesy rom-coms Hollywood traffics into theaters every other week.
Premiere	9	...by far the most genuine romantic comedy we have seen in a while.

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ALL AVERAGE CRITIC RATING	7.6
AVERAGE USER RATING (8 ratings)	7.6

USER REVIEWS:

linus 10

One of the best films, I have ever seen.

So raw, real, & majestic... a movie that in every single aspect, is perfect.

Music and soundtrack, acting, dialogue, script, directing, editing... perfection!

bdavid 9

Not your classic romantic comedy. Refreshingly novel.

dack 9

I can't decide what I am most smitten with: this movie, the soundtrack, Zooey Deschanel, or Autumn. What a pic! This generation's Annie Hall (complete with mad nods to Woody Allen). In fact, I think it's the best rom-com I've seen *since* Annie Hall. Watched it twice in a row on DVD. The dance scene set to Hall and Oates is pure magic. Highly recommended.