Harold and Maude

They were meant to be. But exactly what they were meant to be is not quite clear.
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item number:  7FYQJ
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  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: March 9, 2021
  • Originally Released: 1971
  • Label: Paramount Home Ent

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Certified Fresh84%

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 56,378
Rating: B- -- This darkly humorous ,romantic comedy between an introvert adolescent and and old spunky woman, is playing it too safe to be considered truly anti-establishment, but it became a cult picture. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Jun 8, 2011
Unlike claustrophobically cute odd-couple movies, bottles some of the flavour of its time. Harold's fake suicides are a pale defiance and reflection of his cloistered, sapped life. The vital counterculture (Maude) helps Harold avoid the army. Full Review
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
May 10, 2012
Rating: 1.5/4 -- The visual style makes everyone look fresh from the Wax Museum, and all the movie lacks is a lot of day-old gardenias and lilies and roses in the lobby, filling the place with a cloying sweet smell. Nothing more to report today. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Oct 24, 2004
The fact that [it] isn't very funny and, like its 80-year-old heroic, long outlives its necessary life, is less important than the fact that the characters frequently react gently or like credible human beings to the script's impossible notions. Full Review
Village Voice
Jan 18, 2013
Simpleminded, but it's fairly inoffensive, at least until Ashby lingers over the concentration-camp serial number tattooed on Gordon's arm. Some things are beyond the reach of whimsy. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Oct 24, 2007
Rating: 3/4 -- Bud Cort delivers one of the all-time cinematic expressions of existential horror. Full Review
LarsenOnFilm
Apr 17, 2017
Rating: 1/5 -- [Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon] both are so aggressive, so creepy and off-putting.
New York Times
May 9, 2005

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In the days before home video, when access to anything but first-run Hollywood movies was limited to repertory houses and college film societies, Hal Ashby's HAROLD AND MAUDE achieved cult status and became a surprise hit. In a broad sense, the film is a simple love story about how opposites attract--only, this time around, he's 19 and she's 79. Harold, played with deadpan humor by Bud Cort (M*A*S*H), is under extreme pressure from his overbearing mother, Mrs. Chasen (Vivian Pickles, in a performance that is a sheer delight), to enter the dating world. Unfortunately, the shy and morose Harold would rather spend his time attending the funerals of complete strangers. It is at one of these where he meets Maude (Ruth Gordon), who has the spunk and energy of a teenager. Maude is convinced that Harold needs to come out of his shell and enjoy life, so she brings him into hers.

The taboo relationship between Harold and Maude, created by screenwriter Colin Higgins, embodied the spirit of an experimental generation guided by the mantra "If it feels good, do it." The love affair between the film's two eccentrics remains one of Hollywood's most unexpected, but tender, romances. The soundtrack, with songs by Cat Stevens, provides an effective thematic bridge as Harold crosses from extended adolescence into manhood.

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