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- 1979
- PG
- Orion Pictures
- 1 h 50 m
- 1979
- PG
- Orion Pictures
- 1 h 50 m
Summary This 1979 romantic tale captures a young Diane Lane in her screen debut as an American teenager living in Paris, who meets and falls in love with a French teenager (Theolonious Bernard).
Directed By: George Roy Hill
Written By: Allan Burns, Patrick Cauvin, George Roy Hill
- 1979
- PG
- Orion Pictures
- 1 h 50 m
- 1979
- PG
- Orion Pictures
- 1 h 50 m
A Little Romance
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Summary This 1979 romantic tale captures a young Diane Lane in her screen debut as an American teenager living in Paris, who meets and falls in love with a French teenager (Theolonious Bernard).
Directed By: George Roy Hill
Written By: Allan Burns, Patrick Cauvin, George Roy Hill
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Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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50% Positive
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10% Negative
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1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
52
50% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
40% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
10% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
This sweet and innocent movie about teen romance won't fail to bring a tear and a smile in its heart-tugging finale.
A genuine charmer by George Roy Hill, a director best known for such ersatz charmers as Butch Cassidy and The Sting. His crowd-pleasing instincts have been subsumed by a bracing technical assurance here; the contrivances are still there, but they're presented with a smooth and rare professionalism.
In its sweet, witty and modestly sentimental way, it delivers the romantic frissons that many star-studded, would-be blockbusters of the heart lumber in vain to achieve. [30 Apr 1979, p.81]
A Little Romance has been described as a movie about the way kids behave when adults aren't looking. I think it's quite the opposite: A movie about the way kids behave when adults are looking - and when adults are writing the dialog and directing the action, too. It gives us two movie kids in a story so unlikely I assume it was intended as a fantasy. And it gives us dialog and situations so relentlessly cute we want to squirm.
The intentional comedy in the film always seems on the verge of working, but then is quickly bludgeoned to death.
A Little Romance is a movie that seems to have melted the minds of everyone of any stature connected with it.
Thanks to the heavy synthetic hand of director George Roy Hill, the potentially charming aspects of the kids' infatuation curdle into syrupy gruel.
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Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Nominations
Young Artist Awards
• 4 Wins & 5 Nominations
