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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Feb 19, 2006
Pros: Cort and Gordon are excellent together
Cons: Suicide is not funny
Summary: 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. ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 12, 2010
Pros: Interesting and amusing plot well acted out.
Cons: Dark humor throughout may put some people off.
Summary: § Where did you meet? They say church is a good place to meet someone, and young Harold's mother has determined it's time for him--at age 19--"to find a prospective wife." He's a regular churchgoer ("I go to funerals"), and ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 2, 2008
Pros: This movie is downright hilarious in a twisted, disturbed way.
Cons: I would have loved a happy ending, although the ending is appropriate.
Summary: Everyone should see “Harold and Maude” at least once. Within five minutes into the film, it’s obvious that this is NOT your typical romantic comedy. In this 1971 cult classic, a youth obsessed with death finds romance with a senior ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 19, 2008
Pros: Believability, humor, characters, script.
Cons: Ending is hmmmmmmm
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 18, 2008
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
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 12, 2006
Pros: Everything.
Cons: None.
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 21, 2005
Pros: Entertaining, and had great music...
Cons: Bizarre and rather risky sometimes
Summary: This movie started strange, and honestly I was worried about where it would lead. I mean, boy who enjoys committing suicide to make his mother feel bad for him was rather strange. I think it ended up to be an interesting plot bit, and was actually a ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 21, 2005
Pros: Good message/Theme. I love Maude and all of her quirkiness. Cat Stevens.
Cons: The suicide, the whole romance and Harold falling in love with a 79 year old.
Summary: A movie about quirky romance and learning to live, Harold and Maude has a little of it all. I had the chance to see this movie for the first time last week, never in my life had I even heard of the movie. It starts off with Harold hanging himself which I ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 15, 2005
Pros: Live your life to the fullest!!
Cons: It's ok to drive your mother insane!
Summary: I just recently saw this movie with a friend who said that I had to see and I would really like it. Well I will just say that it was not my favorite movie but it was ok. I really liked the character Harold. He did really good job at playing this role. ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 15, 2005
Pros: Great music, good actors
Cons: He's 18 and she is 80
Summary: Coming from someone born in 1986 the one thing that I couldn't get away from was the age difference of Harold and Maude. She was almost 80 and he had to be in his late teens. I don't know how that was viewed back when this movie was made but now I ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 15, 2005
Pros: The movie is quite funny and entertaining.
Cons: The only con is that Harold is 18 and Maude is 80.
Summary: Life is a hard thing to understand. Every person is an individual. So I feel that every one should have the opportunity to live the way they want to. Harold and Maude give us a wonderful example of how to live life to the fullest. At the beginning of the ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 15, 2005
Pros: Learning to love and enjoy life
Cons: Mock suicides may offend some and not be found funny
Summary: "If you want to sing out, sing out. And if you want to be free, be free. Cause there's a million things to be, you know that there are." These are a few of the lines from the theme song of Harold and Maude, written by Cat Stevens. Not only does this ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 28, 2005
Pros: Fresh and Magnetic
Cons: This Review will get a rewrite soon. I am not satisfied with it.
Summary: I happened to catch this film on television late one night, and, deciding that there was nothing else to watch on television, embarked upon a wonderful, beautiful display of vitality, freedom, and imagination. Starring in this film are Bud Cort (who has ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 3, 2004
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.
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 3, 2003
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.
Summary: 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, ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 24, 2002
Pros: Pokes fun at death AND life
Cons: Some may not appreciate the dark humor
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 15, 2002
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)
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 8, 2002
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.
Summary: 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”...
if not for ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 17, 2001
Pros: Great for people like me who enjoy black humor.
Cons: Not for the sensitive or those who don't like black humor.
Summary: 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." ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 3, 2001
Pros: Just one of those movies :)
Cons: Cons? Are you kidding??
Summary: ....'An oldie but a goodie'.
I have a nitty-picky DVD collection, I'm not going to spend $112 on a dvd.. {why, how much did you buy your copy for?}....and be bored with it after a couple of weeks. No, for me to buy a DVD, it either has to be ... read more
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