(500) Days of Summer

Summer is the girl he knows he’s going to spend the rest of his life with. But the narrator tells us it won’t turn out that way, right up front. This a smart romantic comedy, cleverly written and presented by hopping back and forth through the 500 days of a relationship. There are many good things here, but the best was what I think of as a “Ferris Bueller” moment, when a happy walk down the street slowly transforms into a full-blown musical number at the LA Civic Center. There is a lot of LA scenery, which Lee and I enjoyed as we have explored most of these places.