(500) Days of Summer, the new out-of-sequence chronicle of a failed romance co-written by Margate's Scott Neustadter, opened today in cities across the country (tho not Philly, that's next week; it was screened at the Philly Film Fest in March).  Neustadter, a 1994 graduate of Atlantic High, told the Atlantic City Press's Vincent Jackson in March that he wrote most of the film while sitting on the beach on Rumson Avenue, after returning from London and a sputtered 6-month romance, one of two sputtered 6-month romances that inspired the film. Neustadter is, of course, part of the extended and storied Neustadters of Margate, whose influence is felt in many places up and down the Jersey shore. And, now, of course, in Hollywood. Go Neustadters. The film is set mostly in Los Angeles, but at the beginning, as it shows a man and woman growing up on either side of the screen, the narrator says, "This kid from Margate." Which of course will get a pretty good cheer in theaters down the shore, if it ever comes to theaters down the shore. The film got pretty boffo reviews all in all, with New York Times critic A.O. Scott willing to overlook a little thinness and saying it was "as mopily, winningly seductive as the Regina Spektor songs on the soundtrack." That's pretty good comparing in my book. The film will be back in Philly on July 24, and hopefully in shore theaters as well, or soon thereafter. Here's a soundtrack preview to tide you over.