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Plot

The disarming comedy A Little Romance features Diane Lane as a 13-year-old American, living in Paris with her businessman stepfather (Arthur Hill) and her promiscuous mother (Sally Kellerman). Mom is currently enamored with pretentious-filmmaker David Dukes, and it is on the set of Dukes' latest picture that Lane meets another 13-year-old, insatiable French film buff Thelonious Bernard. A likeable street-smart petty thief and gambler, Bernard is instantly attracted to Lane. With the help of roguish old Laurence Olivier, Lane and Bernard arrange a romantic rendezvous under the Bridge of Sighs in Venice. Naturally, when the kids disappear it's a cause for international concern, but all ends as it should. Some of the best moments in A Little Romance belong to Broderick Crawford, unselfconsciously playing "himself" at a movie party.
MPAA Rating:
PG
Genre(s):
Comedy,Romance
Run Time:
110min.
DVD Release Date:
01/07/2003
Director(s):
Themes:
Americans Abroad,Runaways,First Love
Tone:
Bittersweet,Light,Sweet,Stylish,Wistful,Witty
Keywords:
Parisian,adolescence,coming-of-age,first-love,gifted/talented,kiss,pickpocket,romance,runaway [from home],teenagers
Language:
English