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intereact!Actors: Harvey Brumfield, Eric Christmas, Bud Cort, Cyril Cusack, and Gordon Devol
Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Retail Price (not our price): $14.98
Release Date: 2000-06-27
Theatrical Release Date: 1971-12-20
Studio: Paramount Home Video
Run Time: 91 minutes
Format: Array
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Discs: 1
Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
1) Amazon.com essential video
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
Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5
1) a great movie.. [Rating: 5 out of 5]
about death and life and death and life.. saw it for the first time in high school and have many times since then. one of those amazing films that tells you the obvious, enjoy life while you can! memento mori. just wish i had his car, never saw a better looking jag!2) Harold and Maude [Rating: 4 out of 5]
funny movie. very individualistic (which is a good thing).Love knows no limits, life is all about choices, and it shouldn't matter what people think.3) Must see movie of all time [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I've been watching this movie for 20 years and it always delivers. I showed it to my 16 year old niece for the first time last month and she's still talking about it. If you haven't seen it, watch it, and if you have watch it again.4) Absurdity in its finest form... [Rating: 5 out of 5]
What a treasure this is. Ruth Gordon is fantastic. This movie deserves deluxe treatment. One of my all time favorite films.5) Stands the test of time [Rating: 4 out of 5]
Wow, I first saw this movie in my on-campus theater for fifty cents back in 1973, and laughed my rear end off... my roommate and I never forgot certain scenes. Fast forward to 2007, when I discovered the paperback book by Colin Higgins in a used book sale. I bought it, brought it home, and both my teenage kids read it in an afternoon and LOVED it. I rented the movie this past fall & watched it with my daughter (my son is now at the same college where I first saw "Harold & Maude" 34 years ago, haha!)and we laughed our rear ends off once again, which led to my buying the DVD. It's a hilarious movie, perfectly cast and I do mean PERFECTLY cast, especially the fabulous actress who plays Harold's mother. Wow, they don't make movies like this anymore. Even with Cat Stevens' sometimes-goofy soundtrack, the movie stands up and is still fresh, unexpected, touching without being schmaltzy, and ultimately invigorating, and that's true for me, at 52, and for my daughter at 17. Highly recommended. By the way, I rated this five stars, but it only shows four, and I can't seem to change it. But it's five stars.