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Harold & Maude

Ruth Gordon (Actor), Bud Cort (Actor), Hal Ashby (Director) | Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | Format: VHS Tape

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Actors: Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack, Charles Tyner
Directors: Hal Ashby
Writers: Colin Higgins
Producers: Charles Mulvehill, Colin Higgins, Mildred Lewis
Format: NTSC
Number of tapes: 1
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Studio: Paramount
VHS Release Date: July 17 2001
Run Time: 91 minutes

Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (164 customer reviews)

ASIN: 6300216268
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #329 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
- #1 in Video > Cult Movies > Landmark Cult Classics
- #2 in Video > Comedy > Comedy Directors > Hal Ashby
- #2 in Video > Comedy > Cult Classics

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Black comedies don't come much blacker than this cult favorite from 1972, and they don't come much funnier, either. It seemed that director Hal Ashby was the perfect choice to mine a mother lode of eccentricity from the original script by Colin Higgins, about the unlikely romance between a death-obsessed 19-year-old named Harold (Bud Cort) and a life-loving 79-year-old widow named Maude (Ruth Gordon). They meet at a funeral, and Maude finds something oddly appealing about Harold, urging him to "reach out" and grab life by the lapels as opposed to dwelling morbidly on mortality. Harold grows fond of the old gal--she's a lot more fun than the girls his mother desperately matches him up with--and together they make Harold & Maude one of the sweetest and most unconventional love stories ever made. Much of the earlier humor arises from Harold's outrageous suicide fantasies, played out as a kind of twisted parlor game to mortify his mother, who's grown immune to her strange son's antics. Gradually, however, the film's clever humor shifts to a brighter outlook and finally arrives at a point where Harold is truly happy to be alive. Featuring soundtrack songs by Cat Stevens, this comedy certainly won't appeal to all tastes (it was a box-office flop when first released), but if you're on its quirky wavelength, it might just strike you as one of the funniest movies you've ever seen. --Jeff Shannon

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5.0 out of 5 stars If I have to choose, this is the best, Oct 29 2002

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I know people who have visited Venice and Prague and seen only the graffiti. I know people who have watched Harold and Maude and seen only an affair between a young boy and an old woman. I suspect they're the same people, and I feel for them.

I love movies. I love a lot of movies for a lot of reasons. My "top ten" probably includes about a hundred. But if I have to choose one, I can never think of one more complete, sweet, amazing or satisfying than Harold and Maude.

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5.0 out of 5 stars If ever a movie could change your life.... this one can., Dec 27 1998

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I have been raving about this movie for about 15 years now. To see it once is to see it dozens of times. I can recite it and still get something out of it every time. It is by far, my favorite movie of all time. Whenever you lack lust for life, see Maude in action. "I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this.... allow themselves to be treated as that." Maude

I think we all have a bit of Harold in us that is waiting for a Maude.

May you find it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars tres bon film, April 21 2012

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un des meilleurs films que j'ai vue, une histoire d'Amour incroyable.
Le service a été impécable, livraison rapide, le produit est arriver en bon état.

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