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Actors: Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Love Story |
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Jennifer (Ali MacGraw, at the time Mrs. Robert Evans)is a smart alec Cliffie (studying at Radcliffe), from a lower-middle-class Italian-American family. She becomes involved with a Oliver (Ryan O'Neal), a blueblood at Harvard Law School. While Jenny's dad approves of their relationship, Oliver's haughty father tells his son he'll disown him if he marries Jenny. The couple decides to brave a few years of poverty (until Oliver earns his law degree) and marry. Their temporary penury is highly romanticized, e.g., they make do with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches instead of steak. The two of them also squabble and make up from time to time, in one case leading to the delivery of the famous albeit sappy line, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." However, a debilitating factor eventually creeps into their relationship, which they cannot shrug off so glibly.
--Elana Starr, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Love Story |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Family, struggling with
Yes
Struggle with:
- Father
Lover is...
- of a different social class
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- blonde
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (woman) long straight
Body type
- (woman) very skinny
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 60's-90's
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
City?
Yes
City:
- Boston
Misc setting
- school
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Is this movie based on a
- book
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