Harold And Maude

Year:	1971
Country:	USA
Language:	English
Genre:	Rom-Com
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Rating:	7.3 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	6 Have Seen


Director	Hal Ashby
Selected Cast	Ruth Gordon as Maude
	Bud Cort as Harold
	Vivian Pickles as Mrs. Chasen
	Cyril Cusack as Glaucus
	Charles Tyner as Uncle Victor
	Ellen Geer as Sunshine Doré
Producer	Colin Higgins
	Charles B. Mulvehill
Writer	Colin Higgins
Soundtrack	Cat Stevens

On DVD & Blu-ray World

DVD

Harold And Maude - Paramount - Australia (2012)

DVD

Harold And Maude - Süddeutsche Zeitung - Germany (2005)

Comments and Reviews


Magic Marmalade 27th Feb 2025		Rated 8/10 To affinity... and beyond! Another movie that I'd heard a lot about, but tried to go into it without any great expectations, and I think that's the best way to enjoy this quirky, oddball tragi-comedy, as it isn't really what you'd consider an all time great, a stone cold classic or anything, but it is wonderfully weird, charming, amusing, and delightful... As well as being quite touching. This story of a young morbid, melancholic rich kid, who, in the absence of his father, and in the "presence" of his snobbish shallow, and indifferent mother, and who's favourite pastime between arranged therapy sessions and dates, is to act out a succession of elaborate and funny suicide scenarios, to which his mother (and intended audience), is darkly, blackly comic, but then shifts neatly into quite a wonderful relationship comedy drama when he meets the free spirited, and quite nutty, soon-to-be octogenarian Maude, who seems to do whatever she wants, whenever she wants to do it, which infects this young, bleak, death-obsessed melancholic with a burgeoning enthusiasm for life. Their coming from opposite ends of the telescope in their appreciation for life, is, however, united by the singular oddity with which they each express it, and so, it seems, a natural friendship bound to develop. The impressive thing about this, is that although, as said, blackly comic, morbid, and full of taboos, and although poignant, philosophical and touching, it doesn't attempt to weld together the extreme expressions of any of these elements - it's not going out it's way to be "shocking", nor working too hard to have you splitting your sides with laughter, or attempting to wring tears out of you like you are a wet tea-towel... No, this only lightly, and effortlessly deals with these, and doesn't so much "break" taboos, as walk gently up to them and give them a little tap, and because this is played in the middle ground, they don't have to perform contortions to marry extreme comedy with extreme shocks etc. and so have to go to far out to pull them together... It gels nicely. In all, a lovely little movie gently out of left field, which can raise a nice smile as easily as bring just a tear or two. (And it has Tom Skerritt in an early role, under another name!) ✔︎ Helpful Review?



jaimeeduardo 11th Jan 2021



Dr Doom SUBS ● 5th Jun 2020		An incredible project to create a replica of the hearse from Harold & Maude...

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Vinyl Album

Cat Stevens - Harold And Maude : Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - Vinyl Film - USA (2007)

Soundtrack LP

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