A Little Romance movie storyline. Thirteen-year-old Daniel Michon, a movie buff, especially Hollywood movies, lives just outside of Paris with his crooked cabbie father. Thirteen-year-old American Lauren has lived in Paris for three years with her mother, self-absorbed actress Kay King, and her second stepfather, Kay’s current husband, wealthy Richard King, a computer company executive.
Lauren calls him Richard instead of a dad or father, because she expects him just to be the latest in a long string of stepfathers, and she figures it’s easier to say goodbye to a “Richard” than it is to a “dad”. Based on Kay’s flirtations, it looks as if that next stepfather could be hack Hollywood movie Director George De Marco. Regardless, Lauren loves Richard, who seems to love Lauren more than Kay does, or at least understands Lauren more than Kay does.
When Daniel and Lauren meet for the first time on the set of George’s latest movie, it’s love at first sight. That attraction is strengthened when they learn they are both intellectuals, and as such, outsiders among their peers. Their unlikely romance is threatened by an incident at Lauren’s birthday party. As such, Lauren and Daniel decide to run away together to Venice to fulfill Lauren’s romantic fantasy, hopefully before their money runs out, which they know will not last forever.
Because they know they will have issues, especially crossing the border, they enlist the help of a kindly old gentleman named Julius Edmond Santorin, a true romantic. Julius uses a special skill he possesses to help the pair, that skill, if Lauren and Daniel found out, would require the trio to stick together more than ever to elude the authorities, who would be looking for all three of them.
A Little Romance is a 1979 American romantic comedy film directed by George Roy Hill and starring Laurence Olivier, Thelonious Bernard, and Diane Lane in her film debut. The screenplay was written by Allan Burns and George Roy Hill, based on the novel E=mc2 Mon Amour by Patrick Cauvin. The original music score was composed by Georges Delerue. The film follows a French boy and an American girl who meet in Paris and begin a romance that leads to a journey to Venice where they hope to seal their love forever with a kiss beneath the Bridge of Sighs at sunset.
The film won the 1979 Academy Award for Best Original Score for Georges Delerue and received an additional nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Allan Burns. It also received two Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor for Laurence Olivier and Best Original Score for Delerue. As the film’s young leads, Thelonious Bernard and Diane Lane both received Young Artist Award nominations as Best Actor and Best Actress respectively, as well as earning the film a win as Best Motion Picture Featuring Youth. It was the first film released by Orion Pictures.
A Little Romance (1979)
Directed by: George Roy Hill
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Thelonious Bernard, Diane Lane, Arthur Hill, Sally Kellerman, Broderick Crawford, David Dukes, Andrew Duncan, Claudette Sutherland, Ashby Semple, Anna Massey
Screenplay by: Allan Burns, George Roy Hill
Production Design by: Henry Bumstead
Cinematography by: Pierre-William Glenn
Film Editing by: William H. Reynolds
Costume Design by: Rosine Delamare
Set Decoration by: Robert Christidès
Art Direction by: François de Lamothe
Music by: Georges Delerue
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Orion Pictures
Release Date: April 27, 1979
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