Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love. Girl doesn't.
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.
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Character
Contemporary, spare, intimate and character-led.
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- effortlessdemanding
Who loves it, who doesn't
42 profiled raters. Loved most by The Provocateurs; disliked most by The Cartographers.
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Cast
- Joseph Gordon-LevittTom
- Zooey DeschanelSummer
- Geoffrey ArendMcKenzie
- Chloë Grace MoretzRachel
- Matthew Gray GublerPaul
- Clark GreggVance
- Patricia BelcherMillie
- Rachel BostonAlison
- Minka KellyAutumn
- Charles WalkerMillie's New Husband
Crew
- Marc WebbDirector
- Michael H. WeberWriter
- Scott NeustadterWriter
- Eric SteelbergDirector of Photography
- Rob SimonsenOriginal Music Composer
- Mychael DannaOriginal Music Composer
- Alan Edward BellEditor
- Mason NovickProducer
- Jessica TuchinskyProducer
- Steven J. WolfeProducer
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