IMDb plot summary: A boy and a girl from different backgrounds fall in love regardless of their upbringing - and then tragedy strikes.
Directed by Arthur Hiller. Starring Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, John Marley, and Ray Milland.
This is... adequate, but with the title and the big dramatic ending music, it sets it up as if it's a movie that makes some sort of enormous meaningful statement about the nature of love. It doesn't. It's just your run-of-the-mill romantic tearjerker. The characters have decent chemistry but it's extraordinarily difficult to get a sense of who they are outside of their relationship. And the classic line from the film is dumb (as O'Neal himself proclaims in his later film What's Up, Doc?).
How it entered my Flickchart:
Love Story < Molly's Game
Love Story > The Queen
Love Story < Tag
Love Story > Firewall
Love Story < Larry-Boy! & the Fib from Outer Space
Love Story > Ocean's Twelve
Love Story < Star Wars Uncut
Love Story < Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Love Story < Fifth of July
Love Story > Neverwas
Love Story > McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Love Story < The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Final spot: #1938 out of 2892.
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