Love Story

The bland mating of love and leukaemia which brought a box-office bonanza. 'What can you say about the girl you loved, and she died?' muses O'Neal before looking back to his days of clichéd happiness with Ali MacGraw. 'Very little of any interest,' replies Arthur Hiller, as he leads us through a turgid, trauma-ridden tale of Harvard students falling in lerv, making it financially, and then separating, thankfully, for ever. Dated before it was made.