A Chavy-looking young man called Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) falls in love with beautiful co-worker Summer (Zooey Deschanel). She makes it clear from the start that she's not looking for anything serious but then appears to lead him on before abruptly dumping him. Tom's life goes to hell in a handbasket.
Is she a bitch or is he a deluded fool?
Director Marc Webb jumps backwards and forwards in time across a span of 500 days offering us snapshots of the relationship's peaks and troughs which seem to confirm both assessments.
But Tom and Summer and their "relationship" are all so boringly normal that it's very difficult to summon up any emotional response beyond yawning.
It's a who cares, so what kind of film which desperately wants to be an off-beat rom-com but only succeeds in being dull.
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