This isn’t your typical romantic comedy. Skipping around in time, from when their eyes first met, to the breakup and after, 500 days puts a new spin on how a romantic comedy should be. Zooey Deschanel (All the Real Girls, Elf, The Happening) and Joseph Gordon Levitt (3rd Rock from the Sun, The Lookout, Stop-Loss) star as Summer and Tom, two employees at a Greeting Card Company that fall into a happy but awkward relationship. Tom, the optimist of love, who believes in the one immediately falls in in love with Summer but the feelings aren’t returned as she tells him early on (Day 22) that she didn’t want “anything serious.” (more…)