Pros: Cort and Gordon are excellent together Cons: Suicide is not funny
Harold and Maude is a classic dark comedy about two disturbed people who form an unlikely romance. One is a young man (Bud Cort) with an obsession with death, and the other is an almost-80 year old woman (Ruth Gorden) who seems to be high on life. ...
Pros: Plot, general story, music is fantastic, acting is pretty good Cons: The suspension of disbelief is harder at now than it was 20 years ago
I ask to be obliged (from the outset). If anyone has been reading my other movie reviews in the past couple of weeks will notice a number at the bottom—that is to help me count the number of movie reviews I have. I wanted something special for the ...
If there was filmmaker in the 1970s whose films were as diverse in its subject matters and genres through its offbeat tone, it was Hal Ashby. Born in 1936, Ashby was an acclaimed film editor for such movies as The Thomas Crown Affair, In ...
Pros: Pokes fun at death AND life Cons: Some may not appreciate the dark humor
I found it hard to believe that my husband, who is a touch older than myself, never saw Harold and Maude before. Knowing that he too enjoys a good twist of a tale and dark humor especially (he introduced me to Fargo), I knew it was only a matter of time...
Pros: The "best" balance of comedy, dark humor, and "epic" life story. Cons: A con to those who couldn't then and even now look past the love story.
Whenever I hear someone say “this was the best movie ever” about a current release – I always want to take my DVD of Harold & Maude and smack them firmly across the forehead. Harold & Maude may not be the "best movie ever”...
Pros: Many poignant moments, Relatable theme and plot for alienated, Very humorous, Ruth Gordon is a trip, Bud Cort plays a "weird" but relatable character Cons: Cat Stevens music doesn't always match
This is part of a write off between endora60, JAPrufrock, and myself; thus we have points of view from a book expert, a music expert, and a movie expert. Be sure to also read the outstanding reviews by Laurie and Tony.
There are many levels of film. There is good, great, excellent, so-so, and bad and so on. However, every once in a while a film comes along that is literally is perfection. And yes, you guessed it, this is such a film. A flawless masterpiece that can ...
Pros: Believability, humor, characters, script. Cons: Ending is hmmmmmmm
Oh, Indie Quirk. The films you have produced today... Juno (overrated), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (underrated), other Wes Anderson films (too similar to one another), Napoleon Dynamite (fun as long as no one around you is ...
Pros: Strikes a splendid balance between low slapstick and high, heartfelt humor. Cons: The American, moviegoing public, being drool-in-a-cup dodunks, won't appreciate it.
Harold (Bud Cort) enjoys steering his hearse (he's not an undertaker) around hairpin, mountain turns at breakneck speeds, terrorizing his self-involved, superficial mother and the dull-witted girls she fixes him up with, with faux suicide attempts,...
Pros: A few funny moments, not a standard cookie-cutter Hollywood movie Cons: No redeeming values, the characters are all cliche (i.e., not original)
With characters stolen from "The Graduate," an intentionally shocking romantic couple, and an immature attempt at morality, this movie is an utter waste.
I finished watching it so that I could write this review. Don't let my efforts be in vain...
Pros: Ruth Gordon- this role was made for her and she gives it everything! Cons: Some things in it are dated now. Some of the characterizations are loaded.
It's been nearly 30 years since I first saw H&M. I rented it a couple of weeks ago to show to my gf. Ok, so maybe it's not a story for everyone and maybe it's a little dated at times, but my fond memories of this quirky, unsettling and defiant little ...
Pros: Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon, fascinating and hilarious script, brilliant use of light and dark Cons: None unless it is that everyone thinks its about Cat Stevens
(LET YOUR FEELIN'S ROLL ON BY) DON'T WEAR FEAR. (OR NO ONE WILL KNOW YOU'RE THERE.) Had enough advice from Cat Stevens yet? No? Me either. We are introduced to Harold (Bud Cort) in one of his staged suicides. Enter a "dark" mansion in 1971....
Not surprisingly, Harold and Maude was a box office dud when first released. Paramount didn't know how to market the film, which lovingly depicts a romance between a withdrawn, death-obsessed young man and a free-spirited woman sixty years his...
Pros: Great for people like me who enjoy black humor. Cons: Not for the sensitive or those who don't like black humor.
Back in 1971, I was an innocent child of 7. Since my mother was a movie addict who didn't believe in babysitters, I was dragged to all manner of cinematic fair at early, impressionable ages...everything from "The Graduate" to "Night of the Living Dead."...
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 As...More at Family Video
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