There’s 500 ways this film could have gone wrong – casting, handling, scripting, etc - but it doesn’t. It works marvellously, helped by two terrific leads (Joseph Gordon Levitt isn’t a star but he’s very effective, and Zooey Daschenaal is a star), and handling that is spot on. Everything is just right and rings true. Okay except maybe the performance of the girl at the end, she felt a little actor-ry (very pretty and likeable, it’s just it felt like she was in a movie whereas the others weren’t). Every guy has had someone like Summer in their life; of course, sometimes Summers can be nastier and sometimes they don’t last for 500 days.
NB I do worry that this film is going to have a bad influence in inspiring legions of far less talented people to write movies about their own failed relationships.
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