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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Paramount Home Video
Salesrank: 703
Released: June 27, 2000 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Anamorphic Closed-captioned Color Dolby DVD Widescreen NTSC | |
Editorial Review:
Cort is Harold, a young man bored with wealth but interested in death, and Gordon is Maude, a wonderful old lady who can see nothing but good intentions in the world.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: PG
Release Date: 1-MAR-2004
Media Type: DVD
Description of Harold and Maude:
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--she's a lot more fun than the girls his mother desperately matches him up with--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. --Jeff Shannon
Harold and Maude Reviews:
harold & maude dvd 
2009-10-30 - 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.
Classicq
2009-10-29 - 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
The way Cat Stevens was meant to be heard
2009-10-26 - 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.
A True Delight 
2009-10-21 - 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.
one of the best.
2009-10-13 - One of the best films I have ever seen. Utterly addicted to it the first time I saw it. The soundtrack is amazing too.
