A Little Romance (1979)

As the title implies, this is a romance between a couple of kids. I guess it may have been the "My Girl" of its day. It's not a comedy, but there are some elements of humor. For the most part it has a serious tone.  At the film's center is Lauren, a rich American girl played by 14-year old Diane Lane. She and her parents (mother is played by Sally Kellerman) live in Paris because of her dad's job. She attends a boarding school and develops a romance with a young Parisian teen.  They spend their time watching movies and discussing capitalism, Heidegger, and existentialism. One day they literally bump into an elderly Parisian gentleman played by Laurence Olivier, in a small role, and one of his last movies. He ends up giving them some advice about life and love and inspires them to to travel to Italy to kiss on a gondola on the River Seine. As the young couple run away throughout Europe, the furious parents send out a search party, while Olivier sits back and sighs. Georges Delerue won an Oscar for his music score. The ending is touching and heartbreaking. I'd like to see a reunion movie with the two stars as adults. Diane Lane was a pretty good performer at this age. As an additional bonus, there is a cameo by Broderick Crawford (Oscar winning Best Actor for 1949's "All the Kings Men")