Harold and Maude
They were meant to be. But exactly what they were meant to be is not quite clear.
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DVD-R Details
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: March 9, 2021
- Originally Released: 1971
- Label: Paramount Home Ent
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ruth Gordon & Bud Cort | |
Performer: | Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack, Charles Tyner & Ellen Geer | |
Directed by | Hal Ashby | |
Edited by | William Sawyer & Edward A. Warschilka | |
Screenwriting by | Colin Higgins | |
Composition by | Cat Stevens | |
Produced by | Charles B. Mulvehill & Colin Higgins | |
Director of Photography: | John A. Alonzo |
Entertainment Reviews:
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.
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Village Voice
...An acquired taste, but connoisseurs will discover a supremely endearing love story...
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 3.5/4 --
cuts through the superficial surfaces of conventional romance and digs into what actually draws people together
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Q Network Film Desk
It is most successful when it keeps to the tone of an insane fairystory set up at the beginning of the movie.
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Time Out
Marked by a few good gags, but marred by a greater preponderance of sophomoric, overdone and mocking humor.
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Variety
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.
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Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
Rating: 5/5 --
A classic of dark comedy.
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Common Sense Media
Product Description:
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.
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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- Sales Rank: 47,461
- UPC: 032429355492
- Shipping Weight: 0.16/lbs (approx)
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