DVD Features:
- Widescreen Version
- Languages: English & French
- Subtitles: English
- Theatrical Trailer
- New Documentary: A Classic Remembered
- Commentary by Director Arthur Hiller
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 40 minutes
- Video: Color
- Released: April 24, 2001
- Originally Released: 1970
- Label: Paramount Pictures
- Encoding: Region 1; USA & Canada
- Packaging: Keep Case
- Single Side - Dual Layer
- Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox - 1.85
- Audio:
- Dolby Digital Mono - English
- Dolby Digital Mono - French
- Additional Release Material:
- Audio Commentary: Arthur Hiller - Director
- Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer
- Documentary:
- LOVE STORY: A CLASSIC REMEMBERED
- A CLASSIC REMEMBERED
- Interactive Features:
- Scene Access
- Interactive Menus
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"Love means never having to say you're sorry." - Oliver to Jenny (Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw)
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1970 -
Best Original Score: Francis Lai
Description by OLDIES.com:
Love means never having to say you're sorry...
Everyone loves Love Story!
One of the most romantic movies ever made also remains one of the most enduringly popular.
This heartfelt 1970 tale of the love of a lifetime - the most successful Paramount movie up to that time - received seven Academy Award nominations (including Best Picture) and won one for Francis Lai's magnificent score.
As filming was underway on Love Story, the filmmakers knew they had something special - so special that Erich Segal was simultaneously shaping his best-selling novel from his own screenplay.
Stars Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw each received Academy Award nominations and became overnight movie sensations for their poignant portrayals of a young couple who cross social barriers, marry, and ultimately face the greatest crisis of all.
Product Description:
One of the most popular tearjerkers ever, LOVE STORY tells the tale of a rich law student, Oliver (Ryan O'Neal), and a poor musician, Jenny (Ali McGraw), who fall in love while attending college. Despite opposition to their relationship from Oliver's wealthy father, the two get married. After graduation, Oliver takes a job at a prestigious legal firm in New York, and everything seems to be going well for the couple. However, tragedy strikes when Jenny is diagnosed with a fatal illness. As a result, Oliver must face a future without the woman he loves. This timeless film, based on Erich Segal's novel, featured the famous tag line "Love means never having to say you're sorry."
Ryan O'Neal as a law student who defies his rich and powerful father (Ray Milland) on every issue, including the former's love for a music student (Ali MacGraw).
Plot Synopsis:
A New England college is the setting for this study of a love affair that is tinged with the tragedy of illness. Academy Award Nominations: 7, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor--Ryan O'Neal, Best Actress--Ali MacGraw, Best (Adapted) Screenplay--Erich Segal. Academy Awards: Best Original Score.
Plot Keywords:
Doomed Lovers |
Essential Cinema |
Illness |
Love Story |
Melodrama |
Recommended |
Romance |
Tear Jerker |
Theatrical Release
Production Notes:
- Film debut for actor Tommy Lee Jones, who was billed as Tom Lee Jones.
- Color by Movielab.
- Although many believe the film was an adaptation of Erich Segal's best-selling novel, this actually wasn't the case. Segal had actually written the screenplay first and then turned it into a book before the film was made. The book was published and became a best-seller before the film was released.
