- published: 10 Oct 2011
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Love Story is a 1970 romantic drama film written by Erich Segal and based on his novel Love Story. It was directed by Arthur Hiller. The film, well known as a tragedy, is considered one of the most romantic of all time by the American Film Institute (#9 on the list), and was followed by a sequel, Oliver's Story during 1978. Love Story starred Ryan O'Neal, Ali MacGraw, John Marley and Ray Milland and is also the film debut of Tommy Lee Jones in a minor role.
The film tells of Oliver Barrett IV, who comes from a family of wealthy and well-respected Harvard University graduates. At Radcliffe library, the Harvard student meets and falls in love with Jennifer Cavilleri, a working-class, quick-witted Radcliffe College student. Upon graduation from college, the two decide to marry against the wishes of Oliver's father, who thereupon severs ties with his son.
Without his father's financial support, the couple struggles to pay Oliver's way through Harvard Law School with Jenny working as a private school teacher. They rent the top floor of a house near the Law School at 119 Oxford Street, in the Agassiz neighborhood of Cambridge adjacent to a local laundromat. Graduating third in his class at Harvard Law, Oliver takes a position at a respectable New York law firm.
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And everybody knows
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Everybody knows
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Bide your time milk and three sugars please
Sign on, sign on
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Right on, right on
And everybody knows
That this is nowhere
Nobody knows
That this is nowhere, oh yeah
But you've got to be there
Yes, you've got to be right there
Yes, you've got to be there, yeah
But you've got to be there
Yes, you've got to be right there
Yes, you've got to be there, yeah
And everybody knows
That this is nowhere
Everybody knows
That this is nowhere, nowhere
But you've got to be there
Yes, you've got to be right there
Yes, you've got to be there, yeah
And you've got to be there
Yes, you've got to be right there
Yes, you've got to be here, yeah
You've got to be right there
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