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Key Information
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| Directors: |
George Roy Hill |
| Stars: |
Diane Lane |
| Actors: |
David Dukes |
| Genre: |
Dramas |
| Subgenre: |
Recommended · Coming Of Age · Love Story · Bucolic · Young Love · Family (General) · Theatrical Release |
| MPAA Rating: |
PG (MPAA) |
| Available Formats: |
DVD: Widescreen |
| UPC: |
012569200128 |
| Release Date: |
1979 |
| Running Time: |
1hr 45min |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD: Widescreen, 1hr 51min Release Company: Warner Home Video (January 07, 2003) UPC: 012569200128 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS, 1hr 45min Release Company: Warner Home Video (February 08, 1993) UPC: 012569200135 |
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Professional Reviews
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(04/04/1979, Poll.): "...A LITTLE ROMANCE emerges as a classy winner. A charming blend of youthful innocence and guile..." |
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As George Roy Hill observed, A LITTLE ROMANCE is, in many ways, a remake of his earlier take on adolescence, THE WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT. But in this film the delicate relationship between stars Thelonious Bernard as Daniel and Diane Lane as Lauren is reciprocal. Both on the cusp of adolescence, they meet on a film set in Paris when Daniel spots Lauren reading a book. The mutual discovery of their shared intellectual precocity sparks a romance, and the two begin dating amid the City of Lights. When Daniel ends up slugging the egomaniacal director boyfriend (David Dukes) of her self-absorbed actress mother, Kay (Sally Kellerman), Lauren is forbidden to see him. Naturally, she refuses to obey. After Julius (Laurence Olivier), a charming old con man, spins a tale for the couple about lovers kissing under the Bridge of Sighs in Venice at sunset, they arrange to go, taking him along as chaperone. Since none of their parents has been informed about the impromptu trip, an international search is soon under way. A... |
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