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| Love Story | 
 enlarge | Director: Arthur Hiller
Actors: Ali Macgraw, Ryan O'neal, John Marley, Ray Milland, Russell Nype
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
List Price: $9.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (86 reviews)
Sales Rank: 3672
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 99 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
DVD Layers: 2
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: PARD080064D
UPC: 097360800647
EAN: 0097360800647
ASIN: B000059TEQ
Release Date: April 24, 2001
Theatrical Release Date: December 16, 1970
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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TIL DEATH..... March 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A good movie, not great, that garnered tremendous support at the pinnacle of the Vietnam War, as a type of returning to reality, American style. A large segment of the population was fed up with war movies, "Easy Riders", "Midnight Cowboys" et al and naturally radiated to Erich Segal's simple novel transformed into a simple film. They got their money's worth. Crowds openly hissed and booed Milland's every move, a sure sign of his commendable performance as the bossy, conceited establishment figure. O'Neal's hatred of him could be felt right through the screen.Macgraw gives an uneven performance; one is often at a loss as to whether her attempts at one-upsmanship over O'Neal are reality or teasing. Whatever, the couple is apparently truly in love as the bedroom scenes (tastefully done) seem to indicate. The ending seems to convey the couple's atheism; a truly loving God would allow this to happen? In summation, this is a timeless movie, well worth your attention.
A walk to Remember January 25, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie was very touching.... its a tearjerker for sure.... the movie " A Walk to Remember" is a lot like "love story" but jenny isn't a saint.....
 Love Story January 18, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
There was to much profanity. The story itself is good. When I saw it on the TV years ago I didn't remember all of the use of profanity. If I had I wouldn't have order it.
 Brand new! January 1, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I received two copies of this fantastic movie and they were shipped in perfect condition.
Like falling off a cliff in slow motion, ... You wish you'd hit the ground already! December 21, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Three box-office words explain why Paramount made this silly tearjerker - Romeo and Juliet, on which they had just made a fortune. "What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?" asks Ryan O'Neal, sitting in the snowy bleachers of a field in Cambridge. The answer, of course, is plenty, though it would take somebody with talent to make us care about her, plus a talented writer and director to build a story around her.
Anyway, our doomed lovebirds "meet cute" when Radcliffe librarian Ali MacGraw - who doesn't look like she's seen twenty-five anytime recently - blocks O'Neal from borrowing books because, she says, "you look stupid and rich." No, he only looks stupid, but the script insists that he's loaded. Though she's forever calling him "preppy" and he's calling her "[...]" she's soon making calf eyes at him while he sits in the penalty box for playing dirty on the hockey rink.
"Would you ever total me?" she asks, so irritatingly that, if O'Neal won't oblige, thousands of others would. O'Neal's face gets creamed at one hockey game, attended by his pop, Ray Milland, who observes, "You probably want a steak, son." to which O'Neal replies - thinking Milland means a steak for his bruised face - "Thank you, father, but the doctor took care of it." (Well, MacGraw warned us he was stupid.)
The womanizing O'Neal baffles his roomies, including Tommy Lee Jones, by suddenly knuckling down to his law studies; O'Neal marvels to MacGraw, "It's amazing. I'm really studying." Amazing, indeed, but not as amazing as O'Neal's proposing marriage. Damned if we aren't as puzzled as she is. "You're a preppy millionaire," she whines, "and I'm a social zero."
Though meeting the folks goes badly, they marry anyway and move to New York when he gets appointed to a swank law firm. True love runs smooth until -- uh-oh! - O'Neal learns that he's going to lose MacGraw to one of those Unspecified Terminal Diseases so beloved by Bad Moviemakers. The sight of flesh wasting away? Hair falling out in chunks? Nausea? No, Ali just grows a tad pale and asks O'Neal to take her to the hospital where, her hair spread out decoratively on the pillow, she assures him there's no pain, explaining, "It's like falling off a cliff in slow motion, you know? Only, after a while, you wish you'd hit the ground already." (We feel the same way.)
O'Neal sits on the bleachers near the playing field and waxes nostalgic ("She loved Mozart, and Bach, the Beatles, and me") while the snow falls. This howler made so much money, it actually got nominated for six Oscars and spawned a sequel, Oliver's Story, but, hey, Trash means never having to say you're sorry.
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