Ali MacGraw,
Ryan O'Neal,
John Marley,
Ray Milland,
Russell Nype
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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 st... read more
Directed by: Arthur Hiller
Release Date: December 16, 1970
Keywords:
love story,
never having,
means never,
ali macgraw,
Tommy Lee Jones,
Ray Milland ,
Love Story ,
Erich Segal ,
John Marley
DVD Release Date: April 24, 2001
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December 16, 2010The best romantic drama of the seventies! It's sweet, tragic, dramatic, intense, and very modern too. I loved it and if you like sad romantic dramas you will love it too. I especially loved O'Neal in this movie.
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November 4, 2010I better stop watching 40-year-old movies. When I see them today, they seem disappointing compared to today's movies, and there are a few of these 1970's era movies I have down-rated from my initial rating.
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July 21, 2010It's exactly what it aspires to be, an extremely honest and believable romance drama. It has great dialogue and acting, the chemistry between Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw is what makes it work as well as it does. It's sort of the reason all movies like it since seem cliched, there... read more
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April 15, 2010Puerile drama with one of the worst performances, by Ali MacGraw, ever recorded on film. Somehow this was an enormous hit in its day, the mind reels as to why or how.
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September 11, 2009My dad's favorite movie of all time. In "Love Story," a rich guy, Oliver (Ryan O'Neal), and a poor girl, Jennifer (Ali MacGraw), fall in love while both are attending Harvard University. When you see the two characters, it's hard to see how a smart talking music girl and a rich h... read more
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July 21, 2011I really liked how the characters were written and their dialogues, especially at the beginning, showed the effort put into creating believeable persons to relate to. The film can't completely escape its cheesy sentimentality (''Love means never having to say you're sorry'', as f... read more
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June 15, 2011Some of the acting was pretty cheesy, but the story itself was adorable. Their relationship was very unique and touching. Very sad!
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November 30, 2010So many remakes and different titles since then, All movies are are remakes of the good ones back in the day when there was acting.
Critic Reviews
December 19, 2007
TIME Magazine
May 9, 2005
Vincent Canby, New York Times
The only really depressing thing about Love Story is the thought of all of the terrible imitations that will inevitably follow it. Full Review
October 23, 2004
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Hiller earns our emotional response because of the way he's directed the movie. Full Review
January 30, 2012
Empire Magazine
We all know what happens in the end so what's the bleeding point? Full Review
January 24, 2012
John J. Puccio, Movie Metropolis
If you're going to make a serious tearjerker, somebody's got to die. It's in the handbook of romantic platitudes. Full Review
January 1, 2011
Common Sense Media Editors, Common Sense Media
Mega-hit of the 1970s is a real cringer today. Full Review
September 23, 2008
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
Guilty pleasure par excellence: How did this poorly-acted schmaltzy romantic melodrama ever get Best Picture Oscar nomination? Full Review
December 19, 2007
TV Guide's Movie Guide
By the time O'Neal gets around to intoning the famous tag line, you'll be so sick of hearing Francis Lai's love theme that you'll want to strangle the projectionist. Full Review
September 10, 2006
Steve Crum, Dispatch-Tribune Newspapers
Cornball classic weeper is at least true to its book basis.
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