Old-money Harvard man Oliver (Ryan O'Neal) woos and weds no-money Radcliffe woman Jenny (Ali MacGraw). (Learn more)
Starring: Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, Ray Milland (View All)
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Starring: Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, Ray Milland
In director Arthur Hiller's hit tearjerker -- based on Erich Segal's novella -- Ryan O'Neal plays Oliver Barrett IV, a comfortably off Harvard pre-law student who falls in love with Radcliffe music student Jenny Cavilleri (Ali MacGraw), a freewheeling, delightfully profane product of a blue-collar Italian-American family. Oliver's father (Ray Milland) heartily disapproves of the subsequent marriage and cuts off his son's allowance. Despite financial travails (the pampered Oliver actually has to go to work!), the couple is blissfully happy....until Jenny is diagnosed as having an unnamed disease that consigns her to an early death. The movie's tagline "Love means never having to say you're sorry" became an iconic American catchphrase, the film's theme a number one hit. One of the early products of Paramount guru Robert Evans, Love Story grossed more money than any Paramount production before it. This enormously successful film inspired a 1978 sequel, Oliver's Story. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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US Release Date
10/20/70
MPAA Rating
Rated PG for language and a love scene.
Running Time
100 mins.
Locations
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- New York City, New York, USA
Language
- English
Awards
- Nominated for a Best Original Screenplay award at the 1970 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 1970 National Board of Review [Festival/Awa Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Director award at the 1970 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Original Score award at the 1970 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture - Drama award at the 1970 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Winner of the Best Screenplay award at the 1970 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Supporting Actor award at the 1970 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama award at the 1970 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Director award at the 1970 Directors Guild of America [Festival/A Awards.
- Winner of the Best Original Score award at the 1970 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama award at the 1970 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Actress award at the 1970 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion award at the 1970 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Actor award at the 1970 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 1970 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 1970 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
Distributor
- Paramount Home Entertainment
- Paramount Pictures
