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Plot summary
Lauren King, an American girl of thirteen who has spent three years in Paris, is book-smart. Her mother, Kay, is married to Richard, and Kay is growing interested in George de Marco, a director whose movie set brings Lauren together with Daniel Michon, a French boy her age who loves films and lives with his taxi-driving father. The two become a couple. Julius Santorin, an elderly man they encounter in an accident, tells Lauren that a couple who kisses in a gondola below the Bridge of Sighs at sunset, as the bells sound, will love each other always. At a party, Daniel punches George over a crude remark aimed at Lauren, and Kay bans the pair from dating. Since the family expects to fly home, Lauren works out a way to get to Venice with Daniel.
Cast
- Claudette Sutherlandas Janet Duryea
- Ashby Sempleas Natalie Woodstein
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Little Romance (1979)
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- The film won the 1979 Academy Award for Best Original Score for Georges Delerue, with Golden Globe nominations for Laurence Olivier and Delerue and Young Artist Award nominations for Thelonious Bernard and Diane Lane; it was also the first film produced by Orion Pictures.
- Throughout the film the characters go to the cinema and watch The Big Sleep, True Grit and Hustle, as well as George Roy Hill's two Robert Redford/Paul Newman buddy pictures, The Sting and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, in clips subtitled or dubbed into French or Italian.
- A Little Romance was the film debut of Diane Lane, who was 13 years old, acting alongside Laurence Olivier and Thelonious Bernard for director George Roy Hill.
