Love Story

By Brooks Wilson for the Knotty Girls Small Group.

Love Story, when it opened in 1970, instantly became a romantic classic. It actually was only a so-so movie, but it touched people's hearts by pairing the handsome and rich Oliver (his family was so rich they had a Harvard hall named for them) with the poor but brilliant Jennifer. Played by classic jock Ryan O'Neal and the luminous Ali MacCraw, their campus romance crepit into our hearts with the silly tag line "love means never having to say you're sorry". In spite of his parents' objections and her father's reservations, the couple marry, manage to finance law school, fight, make up and she eventually dies a tragic, young death, leaving Oliver to ponder what it's all about. Seems to me there was plenty of room for "sorry" in the polot, and some of the torn relationships do mend somewhat, but, in any case, thats the line everyone remembers from the movie.