Love Story

UPC: 097360800647

Studio: Paramount

MPAA Rating: PG   Contains:[Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language, Suitable for Teens]

Summary: In director Arthur Hiller's hit tearjerker -- based on Erich Segal's novella -- Ryan O'Neal plays Oliver Barrett IV, a comfortably off Harvard pre-law student who falls in love with Radcliffe music student Jenny Cavilleri (Ali MacGraw), a freewheeling, delightfully profane product of a blue-collar Italian-American family. Oliver's father (Ray Milland) heartily disapproves of the subsequent marriage and cuts off his son's allowance. Despite financial travails (the pampered Oliver actually has to go to work!), the couple is blissfully happy....until Jenny is diagnosed as having an unnamed disease that consigns her to an early death. The movie's tagline "Love means never having to say you're sorry" became an iconic American catchphrase, the film's theme a number one hit. One of the early products of Paramount guru Robert Evans, Love Story grossed more money than any Paramount production before it. This enormously successful film inspired a 1978 sequel, Oliver's Story. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Category: Drama

Awards: Best Director – Directors Guild of America Best Picture - Drama – null Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama – null Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama – null Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – null Best Director – null Best Screenplay – null Best Original Score – null Best Actor – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Actress – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Director – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Original Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Original Score – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – National Board of Review Best Supporting Actor – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Screenplay – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Picture - Drama – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Original Score – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Director – Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Features: Theatrical trailer
"A Classic Remembered" new documentary
Commentary by director Arthur Hiller

Love Story

Format: Digital Video Disc (DVD)

Release Date: 04/24/2001

Audio: 2 PCM stereo

Runtime: 100 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 -- Love Story
0. Scene Selections
1. Preppy [3:48]
2. Penalty Box [5:09]
3. Fathers [5:08]
4. Falling in Love [2:27]
5. A Marriage Proposal [6:32]
6. Meeting The Parents [6:11]
7. Asking For A Scholarship [5:10]
8. A New World [4:25]
9. Husband And Wife [4:09]
10. An Invitation [2:04]
11. Looking For Jenny [3:59]
12. Law School Graduation [6:08]
13. Doctor's Advice [3:57]
14. Acting Normal [5:34]
15. Ice Skating [3:41]
16. A Personal Matter [4:57]
17. Holding Jenny [1:05]
18. "Love Means..." [5:19]

Robert Firsching

Some viewers dismiss Love Story as a cynical, manipulative tearjerker, mentioning "MacGraw's Disease," an incurable ailment which leaves its victims brave, sunny, and radiant. But these easy criticisms ignore why the film works so beautifully in the first place: it presents a pair of interesting, fully realized characters and makes us fall in love along with them. Ali MacGraw's portrayal of Jenny Cavilleri is so exuberant yet believable (she talks like a sailor) that she is immensely appealing, and Ryan O'Neal's Oliver is both sympathetic and admirable. These are good people, and when Jenny gets sick and Oliver grieves, we suffer along with them. Unlike with most tearjerkers and disease-of-the-week movies, we cry not because someone died, but because Jenny died. For proof of how much she's missed, see the dreadful sequel, Oliver's Story. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Sudie Bond  Actor 
Julie Garfield  Actor 
Milo Boulton  Actor 
Bob O'Connell  Actor 
Erich Segal  Screenwriter 
Arthur Hiller  Director 
Francis Lai  Composer (Music Score) 
Howard Minsky  Producer 
David Golden  Executive Producer 
David Golden  Producer 
Ali MacGraw  Actor 
Ryan O'Neal  Actor 
John Marley  Actor 
Ray Milland  Actor 
Russell Nype  Actor 
Katherine Balfour  Actor 
Robert Modica  Actor 
Syd Walker  Actor 
Walker Daniels  Actor 
Tommy Lee Jones  Actor 
John Merensky  Actor 
Andrew Duncan  Actor 

Country: USA