Love Story
1971
One of the most popular tearjerkers ever, LOVE STORY tells the tale of Jenny (Ali McGraw), a poor college student from Rhode Island, and Oliver (Ryan O'Neal), a rich law student from Boston, who fall in love while attending college. Despite opposition to their relationship from Oliver's wealthy father, the two get married. .. Read more
| Starring | Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, Ray Milland, John Marley |
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| Director | Arthur Hiller |
| Genres | Romance |
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Love Story
One of the most popular tearjerkers ever, LOVE STORY tells the tale of Jenny (Ali McGraw), a poor college student from Rhode Island, and Oliver (Ryan O'Neal), a rich law student from Boston, who fall in love while attending college. Despite opposition to their relationship from Oliver's wealthy father, the two get married. After graduation, Oliver takes a job at a prestigious legal firm in New York, and everything seems to be going well for the couple. However, tragedy strikes when Jenny is diagnosed with a fatal illness. As a result, Oliver must face a future without the woman he loves. This timeless film, based on Erich Segal's novel, featured the famous tag line "Love means never having to say you're sorry."
| Starring | Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, Ray Milland, John Marley, Sydney Walker, Walker Daniels, Robert Modica, Russell Nype, Katherine Balfour, Syd Walker, Tommy Lee Jones |
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| Director | Arthur Hiller |
| Studio | PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 36 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Romance |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish |
| Released | DVD: 04 Feb 2002 Production year: 1971 |
| Format | DVD |
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A barrage of ripe old Hollywood clichés spiced with new-fangled bad language. In the circumstances, well enough made, and certainly astonishingly popular.
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6 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Funny and touching
I rented this after I read the reviews because it sounded unintentionally funny. It was.
I loved the wooden acting and the cheesy cliched roles. I loved the fact that the male lead called his Dad sir. I loved the fact that the poor heroine at first didn't like the rich arrogant jock then agrees to go for coffee with him anyway.
I love how the music is repeated all the way through the film.
This is one of the most charming films I have ever seen.
Even though I got it to laugh at, the ending was really touching.
Best of all, the film only lasted 1hr30mins.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
worth watching
I watched this when I was feeling sad anyway - probably not the wisest choice.I mainly wanted to know what the story behind that cheesy theme music was. It's good, although the quick initial pace makes it seem a bit rushed and garbled - when did they get a chance to fall in love? The end is all very quick as well, which is a shame,as it seems perhaps to be the whole point of the novie. It did make me cry though
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Love Story
One of the most popular tearjerkers ever, LOVE STORY tells the tale of Jenny (Ali McGraw), a poor college student from Rhode Island, and Oliver (Ryan O'Neal), a rich law student from Boston, who fall in love while attending college. Despite opposition to their relationship from Oliver's wealthy ...
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