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(500) Days of Summer
EMAILPRINTFox Searchlight Pictures

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 36 critic reviews
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Based on 129 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Drama | Romance
Written by:
Scott Neustadter
Michael Weber
Directed by: Marc Webb
Release Date:
Theatrical: July 17, 2009
Running Time: 95 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for sexual material and language
Starring Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Clark Gregg, Minka Kelly, Rachel Boston, Matthew Gray Gublert, and Chloe Moretz
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.
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What The Critics Said
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Film Threat Scott Knopf
You're going to hear a lot about 500 Days of Summer over the next few months. All of the good stuff is true. Any bad stuff you hear is not.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
It's a feat of star acting, and it helps make (500) Days not just bitter or sweet but everything in between.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Here is a rare movie that begins by telling us how it will end and is about how the hero has no idea why.
Read Full Review >Premiere Staff (Not credited)
Much like the actual summer (the season, not the character), we never wanted it to end.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Michael Ordona
Something seldom seen: an original romantic comedy.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
Much like Annie Hall did for a previous generation, (500) Days of Summer may be the movie that best captures a contemporary romantic sensibility.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
This is a romantic comedy that makes the concept of romantic comedies appealing again -- that reminds you how resonant and transporting they can be when they're done right.
Read Full Review >New Orleans Times-Picayune Mike Scott
You know how people say that they don't make romantic comedies like they used to? Turns out they do. At least, director Marc Webb does -- and has -- with his clever and sweet debut, 500 Days of Summer.
Read Full Review >St. Louis Post-Dispatch Joe Williams
A movie that will be discovered, embraced and shared with friends like a favorite record album.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
The casting is perfect. Webb has chosen leads who are familiar but not overexposed, and who are on equal footing (neither overshadows the other).
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
A different kind of love story: an honest one that takes a piece out of you.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
The film does a lovely job of balancing emotional clarity, formal trickery, pop sweetness, and heartfelt narrative. It is, yes, cute, and it is, yes, quirky. And it is entirely justified, estimable and loveable in being those things.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine David Edelstein
The film is, finally, a brilliant tap dance over a void: There’s no real drama when the inner life of the female lead is so shrouded, even if that’s the point.
Read Full Review >Empire Staff (Not credited)
Perfectly played, simultaneously serious and light, endlessly inventive, this is a strong contender for the most original date movie of the year. (Terrific) stuff.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel charm the pants off us -- and each other! -- in this irresistible comedy.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
The writing is often clever and the overall production playful and intelligent.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones
A funny, seductive, and surprisingly honest dramatization of the ways we snooker ourselves into incompatible love.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
The whole movie aspires to set an Annie Hall vibe, especially when Tom keeps trying to re-create, first with her and then with someone else.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle David Wiegand
An irresistible feel-good movie about love gone bad.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
It's the oldest bittersweet story in the book, of course, but music-video director Marc Webb approaches his feature debut with great confidence, flair and a minimum of schmaltz.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Deschanel does what she does seemingly without effort, managing to convey Summer's mixed-up messed-upness.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
The film has an easygoing, inquisitive spirit, heightened by Webb's visual conceits
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
It's an "Annie Hall" for the iPod generation: über-designed, pleasing to the touch, making up in generic sweetness what it lacks in bite.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
Slight, charming and refreshingly candid little picture.
Read Full Review >Slate Dana Stevens
It's fun both to watch and to talk about afterward, and it possesses the elusive rom-com sine qua non: two equally appealing leads who bounce wonderfully off each other.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
Boy gets girl and boy loses girl in convoluted, sometimes cloying but ultimately winning fashion in 500 Days of Summer.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Robert Wilonsky
It's more like a love story in a blender. What is unexpected is the sincerity beneath the modest conceit that, yup, love hurts.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
And what makes this autopsy of a love affair funny is Tom's ironic, morose commentary as he revisits what happened.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Corliss
Because the emotional drama is so one-sided, I just can't love you.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
Because we know almost from the get-go that things will turn out bad-to-bittersweet for them, the movie is like one long autopsy of what went wrong, starting with Day No. 488.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
It goes down smoothly, thanks in large part to Joseph Gordon-Levitt's grounded lead performance and Marc Webb's slick direction, but it seems like every other scene coughs up a dispiriting cliché.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
Ultimately, the best thing about (500) Days of Summer isn't its gimmicky script. It's the constant performance of Gordon-Levitt, who shifts, scene-by-scene, from moments of ebullience to abject dejection.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
An exhaustive and exhausting dissection of a relationship that was never all that promising in the first place.
Read Full Review >NPR Nathan Lee
For all its rhetorical whimsy and hipster dressings, (500) Days of Summer is a thoroughly conservative affair, as culturally and romantically status quo as any Jennifer Aniston vehicle.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.6 (out of 10) based on 129 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Xavier E gave it a10:
A perfect movie with large impact.
Ken G gave it a7:
***Spoiler alert*** I notice some critics and fans have called this an original romantic comedy, which I don't really get. Other then the fact that the couple ultimately break-up, I found this to be a rather conventional romantic-comedy. And I don't know if merely having the couple end up apart, qualifies a movies as original. But I thought it was a conventional romantic-comedy that was done with heart, is well acted, and has a bittersweet feel.
Connor B. gave it a10:
The best romantic comedy I've seen in years and an excellent directorial debut from Marc Webb. Deschanel is one of my favourite actresses and she really shines in this heart-warming film. The soundtrack was also stunning, and some of the more innovatively filmed scenes really impressed me. Ten out of ten.
James gave it a0:
Hipster garbage, unrealistic, flat pointless, lifeless plot. Much worse than Annie Hall and other failed "romantic comedies". I wish I spent my money on something else. If you have seen District 9 I recommend seeing that instead of this trite sh*te.
Bruce X gave it a9:
Very realistic, honest portrayal of young adult love relationships that never quite work out--as is often the case in real life. This movie grows on you; good to see with friends and discuss afterwards. Script is superb; you never quite know where it's going,thus keeping up the "suspense."
Tom M gave it a10:
Fresh, inventive, superbly written, and engagingly acted. Destined to be a classic. A smart movie that's a joy to watch. My wife and I keep commenting on one memorable touch after another.
Al J gave it a9:
Fun, witty, true. This movie is everything you don't expect to find from a romantic comedy - and for that reason, I loved it!
