(500) Days of Summer was written and directed by Marc Weber in 2009. The tagline of the film is "Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. Girl doesn't." The film is an unconventional romantic comedy. The first scene has a voiceover which tells the background of the boy (Tom Hansen) and the girl (Summer Finn) and ends with the quote "This is a story of boy meets girl, but you should know up front, this is not a love story". The movie was made on a budget of $7 million and premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film where it was picked up by Fox Searchlight. It was then distributed on limited release in the US and Canada in July 2009 and then because of high numbers was granted wide release in August. To date the film has grossed over $46 million globally.
I saw this film over Thanksgiving break and I really enjoyed it. It had a non traditional writing style, the story is told in nonlinear narrative style. Each scene is introduced with a title card showing which of the 500 days it is. It also has a non classical hollywood relationship structure. Summer is the one who doesn't believe in love or relationships, where as Tom is a hopeless romantic. The roles are completely reversed from classical hollywood cinema, which is one of the main reasons I loved the film.
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