(500) Days of Summer [2 Discs] [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray]

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel star in director Marc Webb's wry, nonlinear romantic comedy about a man who falls head over heels for a woman who doesn't believe in love. Tom (Gordon-Levitt) is an aspiring architect who currently earns his living as a greeting card writer. Upon encountering his boss' beautiful new secretary, Summer (Deschanel), Tom discovers that the pair have plenty in common despite the fact that she's seemingly out of his league; for starters, they both love the Smiths, and they're both fans of surrealist artist Magritte. Before long Tom is smitten. All he can think about is Summer. Tom believes deeply in the concept of soul mates, and he's finally found his. Unfortunately for Tom, Summer sees true love as the stuff of fairy tales, and isn't looking for romance. Undaunted and undeterred by his breezy lover's casual stance on relationships, Tom summons all of his might and courage to pursue Summer and convince her that their love is real. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

DVD FEATURES:

• Number of Discs: 1
• Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
• Screen: Color
• Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio
• Features:
  • Disc One: Last Days of Summer: Deleted and Extended Scenes
  • Bank Dance, Directed by Marc Webb
  • Mean's Cinemash: "Sid and Nancy (500) Days of Summer"
  • Not a Love Story: Making-of Featurette
  • Conversations with Zooey and Joseph
  • Music Video:"Sweet Disposition" by the Temper Trap
  • Filmmaking Specials: Summer @ Sundance, Audition Tapes
  • Audio Commentary with Director Marc Webb and Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt
  • Disc Two: Digital Copy of Film for Portable Media Players

AWARDS

• American Cinema Editors Guild

•     Nominated Best Edited Feature - Comedy or Musical - 2009 (Alan Edward Bell)

• CineVegas International Film Festival

•     Film Presented - 2010

• Florida Film Critics

•     Won Best Screenplay - 2009 (Michael H. Weber, Scott Neustadter)

• Hollywood Foreign Press Association

•     Nominated Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comed - 2009 (Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
•     Nominated Best Picture - Comedy or Musical - 2009

• Independent Spirit Awards

•     Won Best Screenplay - 2009 (Michael H. Weber, Scott Neustadter)
•     Nominated Best Feature - 2009
•     Nominated Best Male Lead - 2009 (Joseph Gordon-Levitt)

• National Board of Review

•     Won Best Directorial Debut - 2009 (Marc Webb)

• Palm Beach International Film Festival

•     Film Presented - 2009

• Seattle International Film Festival

•     Film Presented - 2009

• Sundance Film Festival

•     Film Presented - 2009

• SXSW

•     Film Presented - 2009

• Writers Guild of America

•     Nominated Best Original Screenplay - 2009 (Michael H. Weber, Scott Neustadter)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Cast:

  
       Zooey Deschanel - Summer Finn
       Joseph Gordon - Levitt - Tom
       Clark Gregg - Vance
       Minka Kelly - Girl at Interview
       Matthew Gray Gubler - Paul
       Rachel Boston - Alison
       Geoffrey Arend - McKenzie
       Chloe Moretz - Rachel Hansen

• Director:

  Marc Webb

• Producer:

  Steven J. Wolfe, Mark S. Waters, Mason Novick, Jessica Tuchinsky

• Screenwriter:

  Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber

• Cinematographer:

  Eric Steelberg

• Composer (Music Score):

  Mychael Danna, Rob Simonsen

• Musical Direction/Supervision:

  Andrea Von Foerster

• Editor:

  Alan Edward Bell

• Production Designer:

  Laura Fox

• Costume Designer:

  Hope Hanafin

REVIEW:

• Technically, (500) Days of Summer is a romantic comedy, but compared to most movies in the genre, it stands by itself -- a movie so genuinely funny and achingly poignant, it deserves to be shelved in its own section, far away from the usual, uncreative lot of 27 Dresses and The Proposal.
  
  It stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Tom, a twentysomething writer at a greeting card company, whose self-professed misperception of idealized love stems from a youth devoted to sad British pop songs and "a complete misreading of the movie The Graduate." Unrealistically primed for an epic and consummate True Love, he falls hard for the chronically bewitching Summer (Zooey Deschanel), whose beauty and charm belie the fact that she doesn't really believe in love at all. Nonetheless, she and Tom begin an affair under the pretense of "keeping it casual," and Tom starts to believe that he's changing her mind about the whole thing. While the magic of new romance is blooming, Tom is all aglow, and his life becomes a Hall & Oates music video as he struts down the street to work. When things with Summer have reached their inevitable crash (in glimpses that cut in directly from the happy moments, in a clever presentation of the nonlinear timeline), his world becomes a depressing black-and-white French art film, with balloons slipping away into the sky, and creepy little kids beating him at chess.
  
  Carrying the torch of John Cusack-style, male-centric romantic comedies, (500) Days of Summer bears a favorable resemblance to 1999's High Fidelity. It feels just as relevant as ever for a movie to point out how narcissistic romantic notions can be, and (500) Days does it with a sympathetic hand, and a lot of creativity. It manages to deliver a love story that gets you invested even though you know it can't end neatly with either happiness or tragedy, but rather with a bittersweet mishmash of imperfection -- one that everybody can probably relate to. ~ Cammila Albertson, Rovi