American Graffiti PG
Where were you in '62?

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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 53 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 31, 2011
- Originally Released: 1973
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ron Howard & Richard Dreyfuss | |
Performer: | Cindy Williams, MacKenzie Phillips, Candy Clark, Harrison Ford, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, Bo Hopkins, Wolfman Jack & Suzanne Somers | |
Directed by | George Lucas | |
Edited by | Verna Fields & Marcia Lucas | |
Screenwriting by | George Lucas, Gloria Katz & Willard Huyck | |
Produced by | Gary Kurtz & Francis Ford Coppola | |
Director of Photography: | Jan D'Alquen & Ron Eveslage |
Entertainment Reviews:
This superb and singular film catches not only the charm and tribal energy of the teen-age 1950s but also the listlessness and the resignation that underscored it all like an incessant bass line in one of the rock-'n'-roll songs of the period.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 5/5 --
[A] hugely influential docu-drama.
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Total Film
...Lucas beautifully establishes his characters...
Sight and Sound
...This hugely influential docu-drama launched the careers of director George Lucas and its cast...
Total Film
Rating: 4/4 --
American Graffiti acts almost as a milestone to show us how far (and in many cases how tragically) we have come.
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Chicago Sun-Times
There is brilliant interplaying and underplaying, of script, performers and direction which will raise howls of laughter from audiences, yet never descends on the screen to overdone mugging, pratfall and other heavy-handed devices normally employed.
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Variety
[I]t felt new and fresh...
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Product Description:
Set in 1962; Produced and released in 1973.
AMERICAN GRAFFITI presents a powerful collage of youth on the brink of maturity just before the assassination of J.F.K.. Based on George Lucas's own teenage hot-rodding days in Modesto, California, this brilliant, bittersweet comedy inspired numerous other productions, including the long-running TV series HAPPY DAYS. Lucas's second feature film (following THX 1138), AMERICAN GRAFFITI contains an early screen appearance by Harrison Ford, who would figure heavily in the director's next movie, the sci-fi epic STAR WARS. The film follows one night in the lives of several recently graduated high school students. The genial Steve (Ron Howard) prepares to leave for college the next day, and Laurie (Cindy Williams), his girlfriend, is upset by his impending departure. Laurie's brother, Curt (Richard Dreyfuss), the class intellectual, is also slated for college, but he has serious doubts about his future. Also included here are the hopeless nerd (Charles Martin Smith) and the eternally cool drag racer, John (Paul LeMat), who feels pressure to live up to his reputation. A nostalgic feeling is evoked in seeing the teenagers cruising in their hot rods, eating at Mel's Diner, and listening to Wolfman Jack spin the latest hits, with the camera jumping from character to character as they each enjoy--or fret over--their last moments of summer freedom.
AMERICAN GRAFFITI presents a powerful collage of youth on the brink of maturity just before the assassination of J.F.K.. Based on George Lucas's own teenage hot-rodding days in Modesto, California, this brilliant, bittersweet comedy inspired numerous other productions, including the long-running TV series HAPPY DAYS. Lucas's second feature film (following THX 1138), AMERICAN GRAFFITI contains an early screen appearance by Harrison Ford, who would figure heavily in the director's next movie, the sci-fi epic STAR WARS. The film follows one night in the lives of several recently graduated high school students. The genial Steve (Ron Howard) prepares to leave for college the next day, and Laurie (Cindy Williams), his girlfriend, is upset by his impending departure. Laurie's brother, Curt (Richard Dreyfuss), the class intellectual, is also slated for college, but he has serious doubts about his future. Also included here are the hopeless nerd (Charles Martin Smith) and the eternally cool drag racer, John (Paul LeMat), who feels pressure to live up to his reputation. A nostalgic feeling is evoked in seeing the teenagers cruising in their hot rods, eating at Mel's Diner, and listening to Wolfman Jack spin the latest hits, with the camera jumping from character to character as they each enjoy--or fret over--their last moments of summer freedom.
Keywords:
Coming Of Age
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Classic
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Teenage
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Recommended
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Nostalgic
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Sixties
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Theatrical Release
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1960s
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Essential Cinema
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