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What is the slower musical piece heard periodically through the film?

26 years later, still magical and a work of supreme craftsmanship

A Liitle Romance is true romance and thats why I loved this movie

I plan to take this gondola ride with MY true love next summer!

Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine in Gambit (1966)

William Holden, Broderick Crawford, and Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday (1950)

Peter Sellers, Merrie Spaeth, and Tippy Walker in The World of Henry Orient (1964)

Jack Lemmon, Judy Holliday, and Peter Lawford in It Should Happen to You (1954)

Candice Bergen, Burt Reynolds, and Jill Clayburgh in Starting Over (1979)

Amy Irving and Peter Riegert in Crossing Delancey (1988)

Tom Berenger, William Katt, and Jill Eikenberry in Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979)

Gene Kelly, Robert Mitchum, Paul Newman, Shirley MacLaine, Dean Martin, Dick Van Dyke, and Robert Cummings in What a Way to Go! (1964)

No, I have a father. As a matter of fact, I'm on my third.

Does your mother divorce them or just kill them?

Exactly? He's the head of ICT. In Europe.

My father's a capitalist. My own politics are more... radical than my parents'.

It's easy to be liberal when you're rich. I've seen it in films.

George Roy Hill and Graham Fletcher-Cook in A Little Romance (1979)

Lucienne Legrand at an event for A Little Romance (1979)

Jeanne Herviale at an event for A Little Romance (1979)

John R. Pepper at an event for A Little Romance (1979)

Geoffrey Carey at an event for A Little Romance (1979)

Isabel Duby at an event for A Little Romance (1979)

David Gabison at an event for A Little Romance (1979)

Laurence Olivier

Diane Lane

Thelonious Bernard

Allan Burns

Patrick Cauvin

George Roy Hill

American teenager Lauren King living in Paris, meets and falls in love with a local boy named Daniel Michon. They befriend storyteller Julius and take a trip to Venice in George Roy Hill&apos;s romantic comedy.

A Little Romance

I&apos;ve never been able to get this out of my head since its first release; it is one of the best films I&apos;ve ever seen. I just looked at the DVD and was amazed at how many details I still remember from that first viewing 26 years ago. Gunfire-addled IMDb voters are dead wrong; this should be a 9+, but I guess it gets docked two points for having no explosions and only one shooting (with a blank pistol, which probably doesn&apos;t count).

The only &quot;modern romances&quot; in the same league are Richard Linklater&apos;s &quot;Sunrise/Sunset&quot; films, which I urge all fans of &quot;A Little Romance&quot; to see.

As fine as Diane Lane has been in recent films, I don&apos;t believe she&apos;s ever been as good as she is here, 13 years old and simultaneously fresh as new snow and polished as silver plate. She absolutely belonged on that TIME magazine cover. It&apos;s a miraculous performance which may owe more to director Hill than to Lane herself, but who cares? Just enjoy it...her interview feature on the DVD is excellent, by the way.

With the exception of &quot;Marathon Man&quot; and a couple of British TV plays, you can&apos;t find better late-period Olivier. He&apos;s simply delightful. If you are really perverse (like me), watch this and then compare with &quot;The Boys from Brazil,&quot; a dreadful Olivier movie from the previous year, which should have qualified Sir Larry as the all-time champion &quot;great actor working like hell while thigh-deep in pure crap.&quot; Here it&apos;s the exact opposite: the consummate old pro, totally relaxed, tossing off another memorable performance because he&apos;s in a terrific movie that he doesn&apos;t have to try and save. This is how I choose to remember the older Olivier. Another old pro, Broderick Crawford, damn near steals the movie in his too-brief cameos. He has a wonderful moment with Thelonious Bernard that will charm anyone who&apos;s dealt with an aging person&apos;s fading memory.

Arthur Hill, yet another reliable old guy, puts a nice turn on the #2 step-dad character. Who ever looked better in a business suit? The only truly unbelievable thing in the movie is that such a smart and understanding man would actually marry Sally Kellerman&apos;s vapid, starstruck mother character. Heavens, what a bitch. She doesn&apos;t deserve Arthur, and the scene in which he ejects equally vapid Potential Next Husband David Dukes from their lives is a classic of real-world, real man macho.

It&apos;s a real shame that Thelonious Bernard didn&apos;t have a film career, but if you can only star in one movie, this is a pretty damn good one for it. The iconic freeze-frame final shot of him leaping above traffic to wave goodbye is something one never forgets. It&apos;s like the alternate universe version of the last shot in &quot;The 400 Blows.&quot; 

One more thing: thank heavens there was no sequel.

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I've never been able to get this out of my head since its first release; it is one of the best films I've ever seen. I just looked at the DVD and was amazed at how many details I still remember from that first viewing 26 years ago. Gunfire-addled IMDb voters are dead wrong; this should be a 9+, but I guess it gets docked two points for having no explosions and only one shooting (with a blank pistol, which probably doesn't count).

The only "modern romances" in the same league are Richard Linklater's "Sunrise/Sunset" films, which I urge all fans of "A Little Romance" to see.

As fine as Diane Lane has been in recent films, I don't believe she's ever been as good as she is here, 13 years old and simultaneously fresh as new snow and polished as silver plate. She absolutely belonged on that TIME magazine cover. It's a miraculous performance which may owe more to director Hill than to Lane herself, but who cares? Just enjoy it...her interview feature on the DVD is excellent, by the way.

With the exception of "Marathon Man" and a couple of British TV plays, you can't find better late-period Olivier. He's simply delightful. If you are really perverse (like me), watch this and then compare with "The Boys from Brazil," a dreadful Olivier movie from the previous year, which should have qualified Sir Larry as the all-time champion "great actor working like hell while thigh-deep in pure crap." Here it's the exact opposite: the consummate old pro, totally relaxed, tossing off another memorable performance because he's in a terrific movie that he doesn't have to try and save. This is how I choose to remember the older Olivier. Another old pro, Broderick Crawford, damn near steals the movie in his too-brief cameos. He has a wonderful moment with Thelonious Bernard that will charm anyone who's dealt with an aging person's fading memory.

Arthur Hill, yet another reliable old guy, puts a nice turn on the #2 step-dad character. Who ever looked better in a business suit? The only truly unbelievable thing in the movie is that such a smart and understanding man would actually marry Sally Kellerman's vapid, starstruck mother character. Heavens, what a bitch. She doesn't deserve Arthur, and the scene in which he ejects equally vapid Potential Next Husband David Dukes from their lives is a classic of real-world, real man macho.

It's a real shame that Thelonious Bernard didn't have a film career, but if you can only star in one movie, this is a pretty damn good one for it. The iconic freeze-frame final shot of him leaping above traffic to wave goodbye is something one never forgets. It's like the alternate universe version of the last shot in "The 400 Blows." 

One more thing: thank heavens there was no sequel.

American teenager Lauren King living in Paris, meets and falls in love with a local boy named Daniel Michon. They befriend storyteller Julius and take a trip to Venice in George Roy Hill's romantic comedy.

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