Tagline: What would you do if you got a second shot at life? Mike O’Donnell (Matthew Perry) was a high-school basketball star with a bright future. But he threw it all away to marry his girlfriend and raise their child. Almost 20 years later, Mike’s marriage has failed, his kids think he’s a loser, and…
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(500) Days of Summer Production Notes (2009)
And Now for a Comment From Director Marc Webb Before I read 500 DAYS OF SUMMER, I’d completely lost interest in the romantic comedy genre. Somewhere between puberty and when I started paying taxes, I stopped believing in the world these rosy cheeked girls in cute winter knit caps kept promising me. What did it…
(500) Days of Summer (2009)
This is a story of boy meets girl, begins the wry, probing narrator of 500 DAYS OF SUMMER, and with that the film takes off at breakneck speed into a funny, true-to-life and unique dissection of the unruly and unpredictable year-and-a-half of one young man’s no-holds-barred love affair. Tom, the boy, still believes, even in…
2012 Movie Production Notes (2009)
The key for the director, who is well known for box office hits such as Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow, would be to find a way to set 2012 apart from those disaster epics. “The more I talked with Harald about the story, the more I realized this is really something people today…
2012 (2009)
Tagline: We were warned. “2012” revolves a family who goes on vacation in December 2012, just as the Mayan calendar is coming to a close. Over the decades, many have prophesized that the world will end when the ancient calendar ceases on December 21, 2012. Never before has a date in history been so significant…