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MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language, Suitable for Teens Movie Release: 1970 DVD Release: 04/24/2001 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 40 mins Studio: Paramount Total Copies: 7 Genres: Drama, Romance, Romantic Drama, Melodrama See Also: Love Story

In director Arthur Hiller's hit tearjerker -- based on Erich Segal's novella -- Ryan O'Neal plays Oliver Barrett IV, a comfortably off Harvard pre-law student who falls in love with Radcliffe music student Jenny Cavilleri (Ali MacGraw), a freewheeling, delightfully profane product of a blue-collar Italian-American family. Oliver's father (Ray Milland) heartily disapproves of the subsequent marriage and cuts off his son's allowance. Despite financial travails (the pampered Oliver actually has to go to work!), the couple is blissfully happy....until Jenny is diagnosed as having an unnamed disease that consigns her to an early death. The movie's tagline "Love means never having to say you're sorry" became an iconic American catchphrase, the film's theme a number one hit. One of the early products of Paramount guru Robert Evans, Love Story grossed more money than any Paramount production before it. This enormously successful film inspired a 1978 sequel, Oliver's Story. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Ali MacGraw - Jenny
Ryan O'Neal - Oliver Barrett IV
John Marley - Phil
Ray Milland - Oliver Barrett III
Russell Nype - Dean

Arthur Hiller's classic tearjerker Love Story comes to DVD with a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. English and French soundtracks are rendered in Dolby Digital Mono. English subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials include commentary recorded by the director, a new documentary on the film, and a theatrical trailer. This is a strong release of a classic from Paramount. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide