
A French boy (Daniel) and an American girl (Lauren), who go to school in Paris, meet and begin a little romance. They befriend Julius, who enchants them with his storytelling. In an attempt to ensure the teens' love forever, the three journey to Venice.... (Full plot summary below)
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A French boy (Daniel) and an American girl (Lauren), who go to school in Paris, meet and begin a little romance. They befriend Julius, who enchants them with his storytelling. In an attempt to ensure the teens' love forever, the three journey to Venice.
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| The SpectatorPeter AckroydThe film's title is too modest -- theirs is a big romance. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrA 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. |
| TimeFrank RichDirector George Roy Hill (Butch Cassidy, The Sting) and Screenwriter Allan Burns (cocreator of TV's original Mary Tyler Moore Show) have constructed a romantic comedy that, for all its contrivances, offers an indecent amount of emotional and comic satisfaction. |
| NewsweekDavid AnsenA 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. |
| Washington PostJudith MartinThe intentional comedy in the film always seems on the verge of working, but then is quickly bludgeoned to death. |
| Time OutTrevor JohnstonIt's not one that'll win over hardened cynics. |
| The New York TimesVincent CanbyA Little Romance is a movie that seems to have melted the minds of everyone of any stature connected with it. |
| Washington PostGary ArnoldThanks to the heavy synthetic hand of director George Roy Hill, the potentially charming aspects of the kids' infatuation curdle into syrupy gruel. |
| User ReviewPhilip ZWonderful coming of age/romance film. Probably one of the best films in this genre. It seems to have inspired films like Before Sunrise and Little Manhattan, and I dare say it may actually be better than either of those. |
| User ReviewWilliam SLoved it when I first saw it in 1979 or 1980. A great tale of first love between a young girl and boy. |