(500) Days of Summer

Director: Marc Webb

Overview

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel star in director Marc Webb's wry, nonlinear romantic comedy about a man who falls head over heels for a woman who doesn't believe in love. Tom (Gordon-Levitt) is an aspiring architect who currently earns his living as a greeting card writer. Upon encountering his boss' beautiful new secretary, Summer (Deschanel), Tom discovers that the pair have plenty in common despite the fact that she's seemingly out of his league; for starters, they both love the Smiths, and they're both fans of surrealist artist Magritte. Before long Tom is smitten. All he can think about is Summer. Tom believes deeply in the concept of soul mates, and he's finally found his. Unfortunately for Tom, Summer sees true love as the stuff of fairy tales, and isn't looking for romance. Undaunted and undeterred by his breezy lover's casual stance on relationships, Tom summons all of his might and courage to pursue Summer and convince her that their love is real.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/10/2012
UPC:	0024543634621
Original Release:	2009
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	20th Century Fox
Region Code:	1
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Dolby Digital Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:35:00
Sales rank:	65,046

Special Features

Closed Caption; ; Audio Commentary with Director Marc Webb and Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt; ; Lost Days of Summer - Deleted and Extended Scenes with Optional Commentary

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Joseph Gordon-Levitt	Tom Hansen
Zooey Deschanel	Summer Finn
Geoffrey Arend	McKenzie
Matthew Gray Gubler	Paul
Clark Gregg	Vance
Patricia Belcher	Millie
Rachel Boston	Alison
Minka Kelly	Girl at Interview
Charles Walker	Millie's New Husband
Ian Reed Kesler	Douche
Darryl Alan Reed	Bus Driver
Valente Rodriguez	Employee #1
Yvette Nicole Brown	New Secretary
Nicole Vicius	Partygoer
Natalie Boren	Another Partygoer
Maile Flanagan	Rhoda
Darryl Sivad	Usher
Gregory A. Thompson	Minister
Michael Bodie	Man
John Mackey	Mime
Jacob Stroop	Cupid
Kevin Michael	Wedding Singer
Sid Wilner	Grossman
Richard McGonagle	Narrator
Jean-Paul Vignon	French Narrator,French Narrator
Chlo? Grace Moretz	Rachel Hansen
John Mackie	Mime
Bryan Anthony	Dancer
Sybil Azur	Dancer
Cheryl Baxter	Dancer
John R. Corella	Dancer
Nadine Ellis	Dancer
Reshma Gajjar	Dancer
Tiffany Granath	Dancer
Brandon Henschel	Dancer
Michael Higgins	Dancer
Kenneth Hughes	Dancer
Kelly Minka	Actor
Matthew Gray-Gubler	Actor
Mychael Danna	Composer
Rob Simonsen	Composer

Technical Credits

Scott Neustadter

Michael H. Weber

Scott Neustadter	Screenwriter
Michael H. Weber	Screenwriter,Screenwriter
Jessica Tuchinsky	Producer
Mark Waters	Producer
Mason Novick	Producer
Steven J. Wolfe	Producer
Eyde Belasco	Casting
Al Goto	Stunts
John Koyama	Stunts
Mason Novak	Producer

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- (500) Days of Summer
1. Main Titles/ The One [3:56]
2. Consoling Tom [3:07]
3. Rare Quality [2:13]
4. Early Days [4:14]
5. Officially in Love [:48]
6. High and Low [1:24]
7. Office Karaoke [1:06]
8. Agree to Disagree [2:25]
9. Progress Report [5:10]
10. Shopping [2:30]
11. Keeping it Casual [3:39]
12. Just Having Fun [:40]
13. Lock Up [2:06]
14. Summer's World [2:05]
15. Defining Moment [2:40]
16. Suffering [5:32]
17. Second Opinion [3:42]
18. Chance Encounter [4:54]
19. Expectations/Reality [4:22]
20. The Cynic [1:10]
21. Not the One [2:28]
22. Fresh Start [5:57]
23. I Just Knew [1:10]
24. First Day of Autumn/End Titles [3:15]

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Disc #1 -- (500) Days of Summer
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Language Selection
Audio
English 5.1 Dolby Digital
English Descriptive Audio
Spanish Dolby Surround
French Dolby Surround
Commentary by Director Marc Webb, Writer Michael Weber, Writer Scott Neustadter and Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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English for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Spanish
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Extras
Commentary by Director Marc Webb, Writer Michael Weber, Writer Scott Neustadter and Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Lost Days of Summer: Deleted and Extended Scenes
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Love Testimonials
"I Think We Should Stop Seeing Each Other"
Family Dinner (Day 11)
Paul Meets Summer
With Optional Commentary by Director Marc Webb, Writer Michael Weber, Writer Scott Neustadter and Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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Tom and Summer Argue
Tom in the Movie Theatre (Day 286)
The Worst Morning Ever
Tom Sees Summer Everywhere (Day 306)
Date with Allison (Day 345)
With Optional Commentary by Director Marc Webb, Writer Michael Weber, Writer Scott Neustadter and Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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Amelia
Fame
Adam
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Editorial Reviews

Technically, (500) Days of Summer is a romantic comedy, but compared to most movies in the genre, it stands by itself -- a movie so genuinely funny and achingly poignant, it deserves to be shelved in its own section, far away from the usual, uncreative lot of 27 Dresses and The Proposal. It stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Tom, a twentysomething writer at a greeting card company, whose self-professed misperception of idealized love stems from a youth devoted to sad British pop songs and "a complete misreading of the movie The Graduate." Unrealistically primed for an epic and consummate True Love, he falls hard for the chronically bewitching Summer (Zooey Deschanel), whose beauty and charm belie the fact that she doesn't really believe in love at all. Nonetheless, she and Tom begin an affair under the pretense of "keeping it casual," and Tom starts to believe that he's changing her mind about the whole thing. While the magic of new romance is blooming, Tom is all aglow, and his life becomes a Hall & Oates music video as he struts down the street to work. When things with Summer have reached their inevitable crash (in glimpses that cut in directly from the happy moments, in a clever presentation of the nonlinear timeline), his world becomes a depressing black-and-white French art film, with balloons slipping away into the sky, and creepy little kids beating him at chess. Carrying the torch of John Cusack-style, male-centric romantic comedies, (500) Days of Summer bears a favorable resemblance to 1999's High Fidelity. It feels just as relevant as ever for a movie to point out how narcissistic romantic notions can be, and (500) Days does it with a sympathetic hand, and a lot of creativity. It manages to deliver a love story that gets you invested even though you know it can't end neatly with either happiness or tragedy, but rather with a bittersweet mishmash of imperfection -- one that everybody can probably relate to.