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(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.
2009 · Directed by Marc Webb · 95 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance · Screenplay in the scene database · 16 frames
Tagline
Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love. Girl doesn't.
Plot
Aspiring architect Tom Hansen works as a writer at a greeting card company in Los Angeles. He meets Summer Finn, his boss Vance's new assistant. They bond over their similar musical tastes, and at a company-sponsored karaoke night, they discuss love, which he believes in, unlike her, as her own parents had divorced. Tom's friend and co-worker drunkenly reveals that Tom likes Summer, which both assert is merely a close friendship. A few days later, Summer spontaneously kisses Tom in the office; Tom agrees to a casual relationship, and that night, they have sex. Over the first few months of their relationship, they grow closer.
Tom accompanies Summer to a park bench in the city, his favorite location. Eventually, Tom's friends and work colleagues as well as his adolescent half-sister Rachel urge him to ask Summer about their relationship status, but Summer insists it is unimportant as long as both parties are satisfied. One night, Tom brawls with a man who attempts to make sexual and romantic advances toward Summer in a bar. After an argument, they reconcile and Summer concedes that Tom deserves some certainty but cannot promise to always feel affection for him.
Slowly, their relationship becomes less passionate and they begin to continuously argue. After Summer quits her job at the greeting card company and ends things with Tom, citing their unhappiness, Vance transfers him to the consolations department, as his depression is making him unsuitable for happier events. A blind date with a woman named Alison fails, as Tom spends it complaining about Summer.
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Crew
- Written by: Michael H. Weber, Scott Neustadter
- Cinematography: Eric Steelberg
- Edited by: Alan Edward Bell
- Music: Mychael Danna, Rob Simonsen
- Production design: Laura Fox
- Produced by: Mason Novick, Jessica Tuchinsky, Mark Waters, Steven J. Wolfe
Cast
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Tom
- Zooey Deschanel as Summer
- Geoffrey Arend as McKenzie
- Chloë Grace Moretz as Rachel
- Matthew Gray Gubler as Paul
- Clark Gregg as Vance
- Patricia Belcher as Millie
- Rachel Boston as Alison
- Minka Kelly as Autumn
- Charles Walker as Millie's New Husband
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, French, Swedish
- Studios: Fox Searchlight Pictures, Watermark Pictures, Dune Entertainment III
- Budget: $7,500,000
- Box office: $60,781,545
- Themes: jealousy, gallery, fight, date, architect, interview, romcom, sister, love, friends
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