(500) Days of Summer

"This is a story of boy meets girl," begins the wry, probing narrator of (500) Days of Summer, and with that the film takes off at breakneck speed into a funny, true to life and unique dissection of the unruly and unpredictable year-and-a-half of one young man's no-holds-barred love affair. Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), the boy, still believes in this cynical modern world, in the notion of a transforming, cosmically destined, lightning-strikes-once kind of love. Summer (Zooey Deschanel), the girl, doesn't. Not at all. But that doesn't stop Tom from going after her, again and again, like a modern Don Quixote, with all his might and courage. Suddenly, Tom is in love not just with a lovely, witty, intelligent woman—not that he minds any of that—but with the very idea of Summer, the very idea of a love that still has the power to shock the heart and stop the world.

Director:

Marc Webb

Cast:

Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Clark Gregg, Minka Kelly, Matthew Gray Gubler, Rachel Boston, Geoffrey Arend, Chloe Moritz

Reviews:

Los Angeles Times, Michael Ordoña

Washington Post, Desson Thomson

Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert

Seattle Times, Moira Macdonald

Denver Post, Lisa Kennedy

Star Tribune, Colin Covert

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Joe Williams