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For All Nerdy Teen Romantics
I love this movie. I love everything about the movie. The photography of the European cities is marvelous. I've got to visit Venice, Verona, and Paris someday just because of this movie. Also, the score is wonderful and definately deserved its Oscar. The best thing about the movie is the characters. Laurence Olivier as Julius is hilarious. The two leads are also marvelous. Theolonius Bernard as Daniel is great, and I immediately fell in love with Diane Lane as Lauren when I watched it. I've got to say that I am a lot like these teens. I am a huge nerd, and I am a big romantic. I really identified with the characters. The story of this movie is great. The lives of Daniel and Lauren and the reasons for their coming together are captured brilliantly. There are a lot of funny moments and a lot of poignant moments. First love is studied well. Any romantic should watch this and teens should be forced to watch it.

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No romance is ever "leetle." This one is "beeg."
A very young (13-ish) couple pursue their dream of kissing beneath the Bridge of Sighs, in Venice, like the 19th century Brownings. As they pursue this dream, they themselves are pursued by the girl's slightly confused and flustered parents. Laurence Olivier, as the young couple's ill-informed yet good-hearted chaperone-along-for-the-ride, is resourceful and fun in every scene. This movie is fantastic.

Diane Lane is elegant but not snobby, as the girl, in a role that marked the first film in her quirky, interesting career. The boy was a bit of a hothead -- he may have put some audiences off, which could explain why he wasn't in more films. Anyway, every single scene is beautifully shot, with innovative camera work and breathtaking French and Italian scenery. It's a great little love story, very high on the list of my favorites. If you enjoy this, let me also recommend "Somewhere in Time," starring Jane Seymour and Christopher Reeve, and, for different reasons, "Beautiful Girls," starring Natalie Portman and Timothy Hutton. This is a very, very good movie. Two thumbs up.

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A beautiful gem of a movie
I was sorry to have missed this when it came out (in 1979 when I was 18), then forgot about it for many years. The other day I saw a picture of Diane Lane, and remembered this movie, and decided it would be a good family film that my wife and 2 oldest kids (girl 12, boy 15) would enjoy.

It was indeed. I don't have much to add to the glowing reviews others have already given it here; I'll just note that

1) There are so many subtle grace notes that repeated viewings will be well repaid
2) It is not suitable for 10 and under, due to sexual references
3) I wish even more now that I'd seen "A Little Romance" when it came out, its existence in my memory would have enriched my life for the past 24 years

What really makes the movie a classic is bullseye performers by ALL the actors. The hardest kind of character for an actor to play is an extremely intelligent one, only very intelligent actors can do it, and the two leads are up to it. (Too bad the scriptwriter uses the word "etymological" once when he means "ontological", it is the kind of mistake Lauren would never have made, but this is the tiniest possible blemish, and no movie this rich can avoid having a handful of forgivable glitches).