We start near the end, and then hop around between the times that were good and the times that left pain. July 24, 2009 . I haven't seen a romance this touching since I was the same type of single sad sack as depicted by the hero of (500) Days of Summer. (500) Days of Summer is a romantic comedy for those who don't often like romantic comedies. The Movie Review: '(500) Days of Summer' Christopher Orr. As the narrator of “(500) Days of Summer” tells us in its opening, “This is not a love story.” That may be but it’s certainly one that’s in love with its own storytelling. 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. Tom, greeting-card writer and hopeless romantic, is caught completely off-guard when his girlfriend, Summer, suddenly dumps him. Jason Solomons talks to (500) Days of Summer star Joseph Gordon-Levitt and to the star of new eco-swimming film Big River Man. Original, quirky and utterly delightful, 500 Days of Summer is a ray of genuine cinematic sunshine coming at the end of a blockbuster season that's been clouded with generic tosh. 500 Days of Summer (stylized as (500) Days of Summer) is a 2009 American romantic comedy-drama film by first-time director Marc Webb from a screenplay written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, and produced by Mark Waters. "(500) Days of Summer" is a lighthearted autopsy of a love gone sour from a strictly male point of view. People always say “start at the beginning,” but we didn’t know at the time it was the beginning. Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) has his radar up for "the girl of his dreams" when he meets Summer (Zooey Deschanel). 500 Days of Summer poster I n 1977, Annie Hall, Woody Allen's greatest success, created an influential sub-species of the romantic comedy, the freewheeling "relationship movie". Link Copied (500) Days of Summer is a story of boy meets girl, but it is not a … It’s been done to emo death. Boy meets girl, boy loses girl. Zooey Deschanel with Joseph Gordon-Levitt in (500) Days Of Summer T he glassy-eyed, almost sinister prettiness of Zooey Deschanel colours the spacey, detached mood of this romantic tragicomedy. One of 2009's best films, (500) Days of Summer proved there is a way to bring something fresh and new to one of the most cliche and often frustrating genres – the romantic comedy. "(500) Days of Summer" is a lighthearted autopsy of a love gone sour from a strictly male point of view. “500 Days of Summer” is a film based on the relationship between a man and a woman in their mid-twenties.