TwiceToddlers Mom MOVIE REVIEW: (500) Days of Summer

Last night, my DH had put on this movie, on Comcast Cable. At first, I thought it was a movie from a TV Channel, not the MOVIES section from Comcast Cable. As it turns out, it was from the MOVIES section.

So, after I found out what movie it was, I was excited to watch it since I had been seeing the ads for weeks now on TV. I came into the movie not from the beginning, so I really had no idea what the film was about. But, as I continued to watch it, I found that the male character, Tom Hansen was at one time, working with his love interest, Summer Finn at a Greeting Card company in Los Angeles, California.

Throughout the (500) days, on the screen, the viewers see Tom and Summer going back and fourth in their relationship. Tom and Summer go to a bar one evening and this guy hits on Summer, with Tom sitting right next to her. Tom is not happy and clocks the guy for his rudeness. After this fight, Summer is mad and Tom.

During the film, Tom and Summer attend a wedding of one of their co-workers. They take the same train to the ceremony seperately. Once in the train, Summer sees Tom and walks up to him and sits next to him on the remainly trip and sits with and dances with him at the wedding.

Tom and Summer see the film, The Graduate, together. Tom enjoys the film and thinks this is what romance is all about. Summer, on the otherhand, disagrees and this sends their relationship into a break-up. Over a film, go figure.

Probably due to the break up, Summer decides to quit working for the greeting card company. Because of the break up, Tom falls into a deep depression and his boss moves him over to the consolations section of greeting card writing. Tom's boss thinks with his depression onset, this will make him a better writer for this niche.

Summer invites Tom to a party where he realizes the party is to celebrate her wedding engagement!! This floors Tom and he abruptly leaves the party. From this time on, Tom is so depressed, he stays in his apartment beginning to look scruffy and leaves only for yucky foods and hard liquor.

Then one day, Tom decides to clean up anAd begin applying for jobs in the field he studied, arcitecture. He applies all over L.A. and is turned down. At the end of the film, he is ready to interview for a job when he meets this woman, also applying for his job, and asks her out for coffee. First, she declines, then she accepts his offer for coffee.

At the end of the film, Tom and Summer meet for the last time, (488 days), at his favorite park in the city where he can see all the building he admires. They chit chat a bit and he wishes Summer well.

**I gave the film a 9 our of 10** I would have given the film a 10 out of 10 if it had not kept going back and fourth in time..I liked that there was not a lot of SKIN shots. In fact, neither Tom or Summer's body parts were shown. That made the movie great. There is no need to always have SKIN scenes in a film. This film was sweet and well written, it was an INDIE Film picked up my FOX Searchlight.