Harold And Maude

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A young man with a death wish and a 79-year-old high on life find love in Hal Ashby's cult black comedy. Deadpan rich boy Harold (Bud Cort) keeps staging elaborate suicide tableaux to get the attention of his mother (Vivian Pickles), but she keeps planning his brilliant future for him instead. Obsessed with the trappings of death, Harold freaks out his blind dates, modifies his new sports car to look like a mini-hearse, and attends funerals, where he meets the spirited Maude (Ruth Gordon). An eccentric to the core, Maude lives exactly as she pleases, with avid collecting and nude modeling among her many pursuits. To the disgust of Harold's relatives and the befuddlement of Harold's shrink, Harold falls in love with her. As lilting Cat Stevens tunes play on the soundtrack, Maude teaches Harold a valuable lesson about making the most of his time on earth.

Harold and Maude is by far my favorite movie. Back in the late 80s I treated myself to a double feature film showing at the newly renovated theater 80. The theater retained it's old world charm. Harold and Maude was the first film to play followed by King of Hearts. I don't usually like romance movies but Harold and Maude is much more than love.

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Harold And Maude Cast

Editorial Reviews 'Harold and Maude has all the fun and gaiety of a burning orphanage' declared one critic in 1972 when this beloved cult favorite was first released. He and the other reviewers who dismissed the film didn't know what to make of a low-key black comedy about the oddball romance between a 20-year-old man and a 79-year-old woman (Ruth Gordon). Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude who also lives in her own world yet one in which she is having the time of her life. When the two opposites meet they realize that their differences. Mar 17, 2021 Harold and Maude was originally conceived as a 20-minute film, written by Colin Higgins, then a UCLA film student during the height of the Flower Power movement of the 1960s. The script, which. Harold and Maude. E-Type hearse replica is way over the top. It was sometime in the mid 1970s in Ann Arbor, Michigan. My girlfriend and I were leaving a student film co-op, having just watched the 1971 dark comedy, Harold and Maude, and I was angry. I wasn’t angry at my girlfriend, whom I later married.