Love Story Company / Paramount Pictures

U.S. box office (inflation-adjusted): $605,484,000

Smart Rating: 81
Release year: 1970
Starring: Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, Ray Milland

When wealthy Harvard University law student Oliver Barrett IV (Ryan O'Neal) meets Jenny Cavilleri (Ali MacGraw), a middle-class girl who is studying music at Radcliffe College, it's love at first sight. Despite the protests of Oliver's father (Ray Milland), the young couple marry. Oliver finds a job at a legal firm in New York City, but their happy life comes crashing down when it's discovered that Jenny has a terminal illness. Together, they try to cope with the situation as best they can.


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