Love Story

Arthur Hiller · 1970 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

The son of an old Boston banking family meets a baker's daughter studying music at Radcliffe, marries her against his father's wishes and is cut off without money. They live on her teaching salary while he works through law school, and then a routine consultation sends them to a specialist. Enormously popular and widely mocked, it restored the studio-era weepie in the middle of the New Hollywood years.

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