A Little Romance - DVD

Struggling singer Nino Donelli wants to make it big and when a sympathetic opera diva helps him out financially, he is soon the toast of the town. Soon Nino falls in love with his costar Lydia Lubov, but their relationship is threatened when conniving arts patrons Kathleen Gerard and her manipulating husband set their sights on coming between the naive couple.

Dapper old rascal and park-bench regular Julius (Laurence Olivier) wants to make a place in our jumbled world for A Little Romance. Specifically, he aids and abets Diane Lane and Thelonious Bernard as 13-year-olds in Paris whose genius IQs are no match for the innocent spell of first love. They decide to seal their union with a sunset kiss under Venice's Bridge of Sighs. It's a perfectly impulsive puppy-love scheme -- and a perfect trek for pied piper Julius to lead. Gracefully scripted by Allan Burns (Mary Tyler Moore), overflowing with Continental charm under the direction of George Roy Hill (The Sting) and set to a sublime Oscar -winning* score by Georges Delerue, A Little Romance will afford you a lot of pleasure.

A world-class neurotic, Robert Cole (Albert Brooks, Drive) just can't stop thinking about Mary (Kathryn Harrold, Raw Deal). Especially after he breaks up with her. Fanatically obsessed with the beautiful bank exec, he repeatedly wins her back -- and then immediately loses her again by grilling her long-distance callers, harassing her business clients and dogging her every movement. But even as Robert and Mary head for another breakup, t