2009 · romance · comedy
(500) Days of Summer
Directed by Marc Webb1h 35m2009
Tom, greeting-card writer and hopeless romantic, is caught completely off-guard when his girlfriend, Summer, suddenly dumps him. He reflects on their 500 days together to try to figure out where their love affair went sour, and in doing so, Tom rediscovers his true passions in life.
Our read: (500) Days of Summer (2009) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded romance · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, gentle romance / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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- intimate
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