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The year was 1977, and a then-unknown George Lucas triumphed in releasing the first of his film series Star Wars (later renamed to Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope). The film became the highest-grossing film in 1977 until 1982 when it lost toE.T., The Extra Terrestrial. It also started a revolution in visual effects in movie-making, with Lucas having started Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), a visual effects company that proved a driving force for the subsequentStar Wars sequels and prequels. Benefiting the genre of science fiction, the film also inspired other works from filmmakers James Cameron, Peter Jackson and Ridley Scott. When Cameron watched Star Wars he quit his job as a truck driver to be a filmmaker.
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Oliver Barrett IV, a wealthy jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law . . . Jenny Cavilleri, a sharp-tongued, working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe . . .Opposites in nearly every way, Oliver and Jenny are kindred spirits from vastly different worlds. Falling deeply and powerfully, their attraction to one another defies everything they have ever believed—as they share a passion far greater than anything they dreamed possible . . . and explore the wonder of a love that must end too soon.