Oliver's Story (film) Oliver's Story (film) Oliver's Story is a 1978 American romantic drama film and a sequel to "Love Story" (1970) based on a novel by Erich Segal published a year earlier. It was directed by John Korty and again starred Ryan O'Neal, this time opposite Candice Bergen. The original music score was composed by Lee Holdridge and Francis Lai. It was released by Paramount Pictures on December 15, 1978. This film's promotional tagline is: ""It takes someone very special to help you forget someone very special."" Oliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his young wife Jenny, who
Love Story (1970 film) a sequel, "Oliver's Story" (1978), starring O'Neal with Candice Bergen. Oliver Barrett IV, the heir of an American upper-class East Coast family, is attending Harvard College where he plays ice hockey. He meets Jennifer "Jenny" Cavilleri, a quick-witted, working-class Radcliffe College student of classical music; they quickly fall in love despite their differences. When Jenny reveals her plans to study in Paris, Oliver is upset that he does not figure in those plans. He proposes, she accepts, and they travel to the Barrett mansion so that she can meet Oliver's parents, who are judgmental and unimpressed with her. Later Oliver's