Love Story Page #3

Synopsis: Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When they marry, Oliver's wealthy father threatens to disown him. Jenny tries to reconcile the Barrett men, but to no avail. Oliver and Jenny continue to build their life together. Relying only on each other, they believe love can fix anything. But fate has other plans. Soon, what began as a brutally honest friendship becomes the love story of their lives.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Arthur Hiller
Production: Paramount Pictures
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 9 wins & 16 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
84
Rotten Tomatoes:
58%
PG
Year:
1970
100 min
Website
6,487 Views


The best. You put down

anything in pants.

But verbal volleyball

is not my idea of a relationship.

If that's what you think it's all about,

go back to your music waltz.

I think you're scared. You put up

a wall to keep from getting hurt,

but it also keeps you

from getting touched.

It's a risk, isn't it, Jenny?

At least I had the guts

to admit what I felt.

Some day you'll have to come up with

the courage to admit that you care.

I care.

- Would your priest like this?

- I don't have one.

- Aren't you a good Catholic girl?

- Well, I'm a girl...

...and I'm good, right?

So that's two out of three.

- Why do you wear it?

- It was my mother's.

Why did you leave the Church?

I don't know.

I never really joined.

I never thought there was another world

better than this one.

What could be better than Mozart?

Or Bach?

Or you?

Jenny?

I'm up there with Bach and Mozart?

And The Beatles.

- Let me sack in your couch.

- How come?

- Barrett.

- Who's the guest of honour?

- Cavilleri.

- Again? Still?

Barrett's slipping.

It's amazing.

I'm really studying.

- I'm studying.

- Sorry.

Oliver?

I love you.

You were great.

- You know nothing about music.

- I know enough.

Wise up, would you please, Barrett?

I wasn't great or All-Ivy, just OK. OK?

OK.

- I mean you should keep at it.

- Who said I won't?

I'm going to study

with Nadia Boulanger.

Who?

Next year.

I have a scholarship in Paris.

Paris?

Yeah, I've never been to Europe.

I can hardly wait.

- How long have you known?

- It's inevitable.

What is?

That we'll separate.

You'll go to Law School.

- What are you talking about?

- You're a millionaire, I'm a social zero.

What do you mean?

We're together, we're happy.

Harvard is like a bag full of toys,

but when the holiday is over,

you have to go back

where you belong.

- Back to bake cookies?

- Pastries. Don't make fun of my father.

Then don't leave me, Jenny!

Please.

What about my scholarship

and Paris, which I've never seen?

- What about our marriage?

- Who said anything about marriage?

I'm saying it, now.

You want to marry me?

Yeah.

Why?

Because.

That's a good reason.

- You're driving like a maniac.

- Everybody does in Boston.

You'll kill us before

your parents can murder us.

- My parents will love you.

- Even the son-of-a-b*tch?

Of course. Where is

the old Radcliffe confidence?

- Back at Radcliffe.

- It's going to be OK, Jenny.

- What did you say on the phone?

- Just that I'd drop by.

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Erich Segal

Erich Wolf Segal (June 16, 1937 – January 17, 2010) was an American author, screenwriter, educator and classicist. He was best known for writing the novel Love Story (1970), a best-seller, and writing the motion picture of the same name, which was a major hit. more…

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