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No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
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Luke 9:62
HAROLD AND MAUDE
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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
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she's a lot more fun than the girls his mother desperately matches him up with
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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.
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Jeff Shannon
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ITEM DETAILS
Consciousness Calibration Level:
575
Submitted by:
Joshua Fredrickson
Directed by:
Hal Ashby
Starring:
Ruth Gordon
,
Bud Cort
MPAA Rating:
PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Theatrical Date:
December, 1971
Release Date:
13 August, 2002
Manufacturer:
Paramount Studio
Format:
Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby
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