Tom falls in love with 'manic pixie dream girl' Summer, but she suddenly calls a halt to the affair and announces she just wants to be good friends. Tom is torn asunder by her decision, but as we wander back through their relationship it becomes clear Tom may have presumed more than Summer ever actually offered.
'500 Days of Summer' is a clever, original, witty and perceptive indie flick about the painful vagaries of love and our eternal, most likely pointless, struggle to understand it.
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ANNIE HALL (1977)
Certification15 Our Rating
Possibly Allen's best picture, this won 4 Oscars when it was released and follows the "nervous" romance of Alvy, a comedian, and Annie, a singer. Reputedly based on Allen and Keaton's real-life romantic-comedy it is a satire of social mores from LA to California, and discusses a bit of life, the universe, et al.
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GROUNDHOG DAY (1993)
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The superbly laconic Murray excels in this beautifully scripted fantasy. He plays a cynical TV weatherman, sent to cover the annual Groundhog Day festival, only to find himself trapped, reliving the same day endlessly. His only escape is trying to win over his beautiful producer. Very, very funny!
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HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940)
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Yes it's our boy Grant again in an early remake of an even earlier film "The Front Page". When reluctant divorcee Grant is told that his ex-wife intends to quit his newspaper and re-marry, he gets her to work on one last story in a desperate attempt to win her back. Will he succeed? Hmm. Top stuff.
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IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)
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Multi-Oscar winning romantic comedy that has Gable as the poor but honest hack who meets the snobbish, spoilt Colbert as she buses across the USA. He attempts to get through to her, and the byplay between the two stars is a model of skilful direction. Touching and funny in equal measure. Won five Academy Awards at the 1934 Oscars.
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ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953)
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For all romantics this is essential viewing. Hepburn as the princess going awol is simply stunning, Peck smoulders to perfection, Rome is beautiful and all is right with the world. Ah, they don't make them like that any more.Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!
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SHAUN OF THE DEAD (2004)
Certification15 Our Rating
Shaun is a man about to get very familiar with his thirties and he's not pleased, a crap dead end job, a social life that revolves in its entirety around his local, a girlfriend, who's beginning to realise he's as tragic as he knows he is, and a best mate who's the only person in his insular universe who, comparatively, makes him look like he's got his act sorted. What Shaun needs is an outbreak of flesh eating zombies to get his priorities in perspective and, as a luck would have it, his neck o
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THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1949)
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A wonderfully witty story of a society wedding that seems doomed to failure. Hepburn is superb as the sassy Tracy, fighting off the advances of sarcastic ex-hubby, Grant, and the unwelcome attention of Stewart, the tabloid hack. As the wedding approaches, who will she marry? Deliciously funny!
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