(500) Days of Summer (2009) - Movie Details

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Release Date:	July 17, 2009
On DVD:	December 22, 2009
Genre:	Romance, Comedy
Director:	Marc Webb
Writer:	Scott Neustadter, Michael Weber
Cast:	Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Clark Gregg, Minka Kelly, Rachel Boston, Matthew Gray Gubler, Chloe Moretz
AKA:	500 Days of Summer
Studio:	Fox Searchlight Pictures
Official site:	foxsearchlight.com/500daysofsummer
Running Time:	95 minutes
MPAA Rating:	Rated PG-13 for sexual material and language

This post modern love story is never what we expect it to be -- it's thorny yet exhilarating, funny and sad, a twisted journey of highs and lows that doesn't quite go where we think it will. When Tom (Gordon-Levitt), a hapless greeting card copywriter and hopeless romantic, is blindsided after his girlfriend Summer (Zooey Deschanel) dumps him, he shifts back and forth through various periods of their 500 days "together" to try to figure...

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The romantic comedy: Boys meets girl. Boy gets in argument with girl. Boy reunites with girl. Movie ends. Every movie is the same, only with different characters and a slightly modified hook. Some are better than others and legitimately entertaining. But in the end, they're all predictable and unoriginal. So when (500) Days of Summer promises to be something different, you have to be intrigued - and skeptical.

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