The best movie ever
Added 11/22/2009
We had loaned out copy out and never got it back. I was so happy to be able to get a new one.
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harold & maude dvd
Added 10/30/2009
I rec'd my order very fast. It was in perfect shape. I was so excited that it was actually in stock. What a great treat to myself :-) I've already watched it at least 5 times since it came in, I even got my kids to watch it...and they enjoyed it as well.
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Classicq
Added 10/29/2009
The problem with Harry is he keeps trying to kill himself. Don't worry, he is not really bidding on the farm. He just wants a little motherly affection, which he doesn't get. Nowadays, the kid would be on about 70 types of medication. In 1971, mom just put you in analysis and tried to get you married and out of the house.
Harry really doesn't say much until he meets Maude. Maude is a lot like Harry--she lives in a train cabouse and likes to steel cars to express herself-only she is about six times Harry's age. The two strike up a friendship and eventually, make love. Only Maude actually is trying to kill herself, and dies on the night he preposes to her.
This is another great movie by the great editor turned director Hal Ashby, shot in the bay area at the start of the 1970s. As in The Last Detail, Harold and Maude has quick sequences that are immediate but have a lot of ressonence. Maude is friend, sister, mother and lover to the angry but ultimately kind Harry. None of this is said, but Ashby is able to make big statements with very small scenes. Ashbys' ecconomy was incredible
At first I was a little disappointed because the movie shows little of San Fransisco proper, which is always good to see, but even better in 1971. Then I realized keeping Harold and Maude's sticking to the back roads and suburbs gives this the small, local feel that made Ashby's films so intimmate and immediate. Never doubt a master.
Please, please please, do NOT try to remake this film
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The way Cat Stevens was meant to be heard
Added 10/26/2009
This is a twisted and strange pairing of talent. Ruth was fun as Ma in the Clint Eastwood every which way you can exploit an orangutan but here she shows a different spirit. And the Cat Stevens' tunes are proper and not exploited as they have been recently in the cell phone ads.
Whoopi and somebody who looks like Tommy Chong will sell-out for less than I knew they needed. I won't buy alot of products these days just because the ads are shameless and annoying. Like any gecko or Flo or car insurance ad. Thnks USAA for keeping me safe from that market.
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A True Delight
Added 10/21/2009
This movie is just as good as, if not better than I remembered it! It's funny that a movie which takes such an odd look at death can be so life affirming. It makes you feel really good. Maude gives us all permission, no, encouragement to live full out. I love it! I tried to give 5 start but the computer wouldn't let me.
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