TOM
You were great up there.

SUMMER
Thanks. I was hoping to sing Born to Run but they didn't have it.

TOM
I love Born to Run.

MCKENZIE
Tom here's from New Jersey.

SUMMER
Yeah?

TOM
Lived there til I was 12.

SUMMER
I named my cat after Springsteen.

TOM
No kidding? What's his name?

SUMMER
Bruce.

(beat)

TOM
That makes sense.

She laughs. She's really cute when she laughs.

Having just seen 500 Days of Summer (script PDF), I'm mystified by the range of friends' reactions to it. I'm a big sucker, I know, but I think the movie's wonderful. Turning to Ebert, a more proudly romantic film critic:

Tom opens the film by announcing it will not be your typical love story. Are you like me, and when you realize a movie is on autopilot you get impatient with it? How long can the characters pretend they don’t know how the story will end? Here is a rare movie that begins by telling us how it will end and is about how the hero has no idea why.

What did you think of the movie? How much of a sucker am I (and how much is Ebert)? Comment, Facebook message, tweet, e-mail, etc…

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