Love Story

Oliver Barrett IV, heir of an upper-class family, attends Harvard College, where he majors in social studies and plays ice hockey. He meets Jennifer "Jenny" Cavilleri, a quick-witted, working-class Radcliffe College student majoring in classical music. He invites her to a hockey game versus Dartmouth College and they fall in love despite their differences. When the couple decide they are serious, Oliver's father breaks down, and Oliver proposes marriage. They marry themselves, and Oliver graduates third in his class at Harvard Law School. As they try to start a family, Jenny's health takes a turn for the worse, and Oliver seeks his estranged father's financial help to pay for her medical care.