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Harold and Maude

DVD - 2012 DVD Comedy Harold None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4.2 out of 5

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Originally released as a motion picture in 1971.
Special features: Audio commentary by Hal Ashby, Nick Dawson and Charles B. Mulvehill; Illustrated audio excerpts of seminars by Hal Ashby and Colin Higgins; New interview with songwriter Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens). Booklet featuring an essay by critic Matt Zoller Seitz.
Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack, Charles Tyner, Ellen Geer, Eric Christmas, G. Wood, Judy Engles, Shari Summers.
Countercultural director Hal Ashby tells the story of the emotional and romantic bond between a death-obsessed young man from a wealthy family and a devil-may-care, bohemian octogenarian. Equal parts gallows humor and romantic innocence, Harold and Maude dissolves the line between darkness and light along with the ones that separate people by class, gender, and age. The cult classic of its era, featuring indelible performances and a soundtrack by Cat Stevens.
DVD; NTSC; region 1; widescreen enhanced for 16x9 TVs; high-definition digital restoration; PCM original mono. or optional remastered stereo soundtracks; 1.85:1 aspect ratio.

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My favorite movie of all time submitted by doctorfang on August 2, 2015, 1:45am Black humor combines with a love story to make you question preconceptions. Brilliant performances by Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort.

Amazing submitted by kelleyc on July 29, 2016, 6:10am This is such an odd movie but so, so wonderful.

Lovely and haunting submitted by sarai koster-mockeridge on July 27, 2018, 9:03am A lovely, if not dark commentary on life and living it to it;s fullest. A celebration of love seen through the lens of death.

Entertaining submitted by Cihendricks on July 3, 2019, 3:50pm This definitely an oddball comedy, but it's fun. The plot is engaging, and the acting is good.

Charming submitted by majean on July 19, 2019, 6:12pm My art and creative development teacher showed us this movie in high school, so it had been a while since I had seen it before I borrowed it from AADL. Better than I remembered. It's a shame it isn't more popular these days!

Harold & Maude dvd submitted by a2sue on July 21, 2019, 3:53am This dvd of the film Harold & Maude is kind of a dark love story. It's definitely off the beaten path!!

It's so funny, as you realize we'll be having multiple deaths. submitted by lisa on July 29, 2019, 4:07pm And then it's so sad, and then it's not.

Can a 50 year old movie still have meaning? submitted by ccrose on August 1, 2019, 12:22pm Heck, yes.
A wonderful perspective that turns upside down how people bond. It was greeted with profound humor when it’s story came out in 1970’s. Ruth Gordon (also in Rosemary’s Baby) sees opportunity in junk, in crazy people and her voice makes me wish she’d been my grandmother. Life looks different to the young man who is already thinking about his funeral. It was shown in movie theaters that were not mainstream, the movies were called Art Films, like gloomy Swedish Bergman with subtitles.
Cat Stevens (now Yusuf).sings throughout and I love to hear his old songs.

Adorable submitted by Stinglikeawalrus on July 1, 2021, 12:43am This film will always be one of my favorites. It an odd one, for sure. But it's sweet and even with the weird relationship you find yourself rooting for them. Even though it is a dark comedy, you don't really feel sad at the end. Also it's got a great soundtrack

So good submitted by jibkidder on June 22, 2022, 11:06pm Such a delightful movie, the Cat Stevens somehow really catches a vibe and with the gags it really somehow adds up to way more than the sum of its parts.

A true classic submitted by aaaccess on July 24, 2022, 9:25am Stands up through many viewings. The ending gets me every time.

A Movie You’ll Watch More Than Once submitted by OlfactoryBookworm on August 6, 2022, 1:03am Love it for its quirky brilliance and the odorifics scene.

Trivia:
The movie became a book after it was a movie. And it started as writer Colin Higgins' MFA thesis at UCLA. There's a perfume called Snow (made by Christopher Brossius) that’s inspired by Harold’s olfactory flashback.