(500) Days of Summer (2009)

Director
Marc Webb

Main cast
Joseph Gordon-Levitt; Zooey Deschanel; Chloë Grace Moretz; Geoffrey Arend; Matthew Gray Gubler

Genres
Comedy, Drama, Romance

Description
Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), greeting-card writer and hopeless romantic, is caught completely off-guard when his girlfriend, Summer (Zooey Deschanel), suddenly dumps him. He reflects on their 500 days together to try to figure out where their love affair went sour, and in doing so, Tom rediscovers his true passions in life.


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