Love Story Category: Drama

It was a box office smash of 1970; the somber movie based on a story of young love between a twenty-four year-old coed (Jenny) and her law school boyfriend, (Oliver). The young couple marries and is headed towards a life of bliss that rivals that of fairy tales. However, problems soon arise. The couple tries prodigiously to conceive a child but to no avail. Both parties believe that it is Oliver's fault that they could not conceive the child and were shocked to discover that the problem lay with Jenny who has contracted a terminal form of leukemia. The movie then becomes a sad chronicle of the daily life of young lovers who are facing separation from the impending death of one of the partners. Jenny tells Oliver that "Love means never having to say you're sorry." She also makes her reluctant husband agree to marry again. The movie ends with Oliver shunning his insensitive father after Jenny's death and taking a walk to the bleachers along the athletic fields of Harvard where he and Jenny had spent so much time. Oliver then experiences flashbacks as the movie's theme song prevails and the picture fades.