
The love story of young adults Oliver Barrett IV and Jenny Cavilleri is told. Oliver comes from an extremely well off and old money New England family, the Barrett name which holds much gravitas and which is plastered especially all over Harvard where Oliver is in pre-law. Like those before him, he plans on attending Harvard Law School, which is not an issue in either the school not accepting him or he not wanting to attend. He has an extremely stiff relationship with his par... (Full plot summary below)
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The love story of young adults Oliver Barrett IV and Jenny Cavilleri is told. Oliver comes from an extremely well off and old money New England family, the Barrett name which holds much gravitas and which is plastered especially all over Harvard where Oliver is in pre-law. Like those before him, he plans on attending Harvard Law School, which is not an issue in either the school not accepting him or he not wanting to attend. He has an extremely stiff relationship with his parents, especially his father, Oliver Barrett III, who loves his son in the old school way. Jenny, a music student at Radcliffe, comes from a working class Rhode Island background, she working her way through the program before she plans on going to Paris to further her studies. Unlike Oliver's relationship with his father, Jenny has a very casual one with her baker father, who she calls by his given name Phil. When Oliver and Jenny meet, there are immediate fireworks - she always with a quick quip to put him in his place - both of a good and bad kind, but they both quickly come to the realization that they are in love with each other. They have many obstacles to overcome in having a committed relationship, outwardly his father's disapproval of someone like her not being Barrett material being arguably the the biggest. However, other things that happen in the natural course of life and death may trump all.
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe interesting thing is that Hiller has saved the movie without substantially changing anything in the book. |
| The New York TimesVincent CanbyIt looks to be clean and pure and without artifice, even though it is possibly as sophisticated as any commercial American movie ever made. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyGuilty pleasure par excellence: How did this poorly-acted schmaltzy romantic melodrama ever get Best Picture Oscar nomination? |
| TimeStefan Kanfer"What can you say about a 25-year-old girl who died?" You can say that her movie, though soapy, is better than her silly book. |
| Goatdog's MoviesMichael W. Phillips, Jr.Sure, it's a shamelessly manipulative film. But it works, because it creates believable, likeable people, and you cry when terrible things happen to people you like. |
| Common Sense MediaCommon Sense Media EditorsMega-hit of the 1970s is a real cringer today. |
| Apollo GuideRyan CracknellAlthough the relationship between Oliver and Jennifer remains one of the best ever produced, [it] lacks excitement and tension that are primary ingredients for any movie. |
| Tim Dirks' The Greatest FilmsTim DirksLove Story (1970) is a sentimental, romantic tearjerker film from director Arthur Hiller about a tragic couple. The melodramatic soap-opera, |
| Movie MetropolisJohn J. PuccioIf you're going to make a serious tearjerker, somebody's got to die. It's in the handbook of romantic platitudes. |
| User Reviewsydney bThis is my FAVORITE movie ever! It's so sweet and just how I want my love life to be, except the ending! If you love mushy love stories- this is the best! |