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(Not) A Love Story

500 Days of Summer(2009)
Released
2009 · FILM

(500) Days of Summer

An aspiring architect in Los Angeles navigates the emotional highs and lows of a passionate but uncertain relationship with his boss's free-spirited assistant, as love, timing, and personal dreams clash over 500 unpredictable days.

“This is not a love story. This is a story about love.”

Directed by
Marc Webb, Audrey Clark
Written by
Scott Neustadter, Michael H Weber
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
95 min
ComedyDramaRomance

Synopsis

Tom, a greeting-card writer and hopeless romantic, is blindsided when his girlfriend, Summer, abruptly ends their relationship. As he reflects on their 500 days together to understand how their relationship deteriorated, Tom gradually rediscovers his true passions in life.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 375+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Alan Edward BellShot by Eric SteelbergScored by Mychael DannaDesigned by Laura FoxSound by Piero MuraCostumes by Hope HanafinStunts by Al Goto

Box Office

2009 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 8.1× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$60.8M

Budget$7.5M
Worldwide gross$60.8M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $32.4M — 53% of worldwide · International: $28.4M (47%)

Opening weekend: $835K — 3% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $1.4M — 4% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 27 theaters

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Also known as

  • 500 Days of Summerde
  • (500) Días juntoses
  • (500) jours ensemblefr
  • (500) giorni insiemeit

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