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Product Information
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A Little Romance
 
 
Features: DVD, Widescreen, English, French, Spanish, Subtitled
 
An American teenager living in Paris meets and falls in love with a French teenager. Encouraged by an old con man, the two decide to elope.
 


Editor's Note

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 completely charming fable of adolescent romance set against picture-postcard European backgrounds, the film is less about the emotional roller coaster of love than the innocent joy of finding a soulmate at last. The kids are perfectly cast in what may be Lane's best film, and one only has to see Olivier kiss his fingers and press them against the window as he watches the couple disappear to appreciate genius at work.


Plot Summary

Diane Lane stars as a young American girl abroad who meets a French boy--and romance blossoms. With the help of an aging pickpocket, engagingly played by Laurence Olivier, the girl finds the courage to pursue her new love. George Roy Hill's exquisitely entertaining work is one of the great romance films of all time.

 
Features
Region 1
Snap Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Letterbox - 2.35
Audio:
Mono 1.0 - English


 
Technical Info

Release Information
Studio: Warner
Release Date: 6/7/2005
Running Time: 111 minutes
Original Release Date: 1979
Catalog ID: 2001
UPC: 00012569200128
Number of Discs: 1

Audio & Video
Original Language: English
Available Audio Tracks: English
Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Video: Color

 
Cast & Crew
Arthur Hill
Diane Lane
David Dukes
Laurence Olivier
Thelonius Bernard
Sally Kellerman
Broderick Crawford
Andrew Duncan
William H. Reynolds - Editor
Robert L. Crawford - Producer
Henry Bumstead - Production Designer
Yves Rousset-Rouard - Producer
Georges Delerue - Composer
Allan Burns - Source Writer
Francois de Lamothe - Art Director
Pierre-William Glenn - Cinematographer
George Roy Hill - Director

 
Awards

Academy Awards (1979)
Georges Delerue, Winner, Best Original Score

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