A Little Romance

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A Little Romance
DVD cover for A Little Romance
Directed by	George Roy Hill
Produced by	Robert L. Crawford Yves Rousset-Rouard
Written by	Claude Klotz Allan Burns George Roy Hill
Starring	Laurence Olivier Diane Lane Sally Kellerman Arthur Hill Thelonious Bernard
Music by	Georges Delerue
Cinematography	Pierre-William Glenn
Editing by	William H. Reynolds
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	April 27, 1979
Running time	108 min.
Country	France/United States
Language	French/English
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A Little Romance is a 1979 romantic comedy film starring Laurence Olivier, directed by George Roy Hill. The screenplay is written by Allan Burns and George Roy Hill. The original music score is composed by Georges Delerue.

1 Plot summary
2 Trivia
3 Main cast
4 External links

[edit] Plot summary

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Lauren King (Diane Lane) is 13 years old, highly intelligent, and rich. She is an American girl living in Paris who spends her free time reading Heidegger. Daniel Michon (Thelonious Bernard) is 13 years old, highly intelligent, and poor. He is a French boy who loves Hollywood films and who uses his talent with mathematics to make imaginary bets on horse races.

When the two meet and fall in love, Lauren's flirtatious mother (Sally Kellerman) fiercely objects and tries to split the two up. Lauren and Daniel decide to run away to Venice, in order to "kiss under the Bridge of Sighs at sunset while the bells toll", which they have been told will mean that they will be in love forever. They are aided in this plan by Julius (Laurence Olivier), an elderly well-bred pickpocket.

[edit] Trivia

The film is based on the French novel E=mc2, Mon Amour by Patrick Cauvin. The book has a sequel, Pythagore, Je t'Adore, which picks up several years after the events of the first book.
This was Diane Lane's major film debut.