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(500) Days of Summer has won raves by subverting the clichés of romantic comedy, emphasizing love's melancholy side and building to an ambiguous ending. The film's well-curated soundtrack runs the gamut of romantic moods, from infatuation (Hall and Oates' "You Make My Dreams") to post-breakup wistfulness (Simon and Garfunkel's "Bookends"). It's anchored by two Regina Spektor originals, but the guiding spirits here are the Smiths, whose grandly glum "Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want" appears twice — in the original version and in a cover by She and Him, with (500) Days star Zooey Deschanel serving up an uncanny Morrissey impression.
(Posted: Aug 5, 2009)
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- A Story Of Boy Meets Girl
- Us (Remastered Album Version)
- There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
- Bad Kids
- Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want (2007 Remastered Version)
- There Goes The Fear
- You Make My Dreams
- Sweet Disposition
- Quelqu'un M'a Dit
- Mushaboom
- Hero
- Bookends
- Vagabond
- She's Got You High
- Here Comes Your Man
- Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want
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