Hal Ashby

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Harold And Maude review by from Cardiff, Wales

If you want to sing out, sing out! 25 May 2004
...Those of you familiar with the work of Hal Ashby (Being There, The Last Detail, Coming Home) will be aware that he was something of an idealist, a maverick director who ... Read customer review

The Last Detail review by from sussex

Attention to the last detail 27 May 2004
...A simple, but nonetheless engaging film from Hal Ashby with a great script from Robert Towne. Jack Nicholson and Otis Young play shore patrol officers escorting a sorry... Read customer review

Shampoo review by from sussex

No mullets here 28 June 2004
... it only this, Shampoo would be dismissed as a cute bit of fluff. However, with Hal Ashby in the director’s chair and Robert Towne’s mature script Shampoo is a searing i... Read customer review

Eight Million Ways To Die on DVD (1986)
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette
Director: Hal Ashby
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Hal Ashby's last film, taken from Lawrence Block's novel 8 MILLION WAYS TO DIE, stars Jeff Bridges as Scudder, a down-and-out alcoholic ex-cop who was dismissed from the force after a questionable... Hal Ashby's last film, taken from Lawrence Block's novel 8 MILLION WAYS TO DIE, stars Jeff Bridges ..read more »

52% from 151 members

Being There on DVD (1979)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden
Director: Hal Ashby
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BEING THERE is based on Jerzy Kosinski's short comic novel about a simpleton, Chance (Peter Sellers), raised in isolation whose only education came from watching TV. When he's forced out of the house where he worked as a gardener by the death of the wealthy recluse who raised him from infancy, he's ..read more »

68% from 6,354 members

Being There - Blu-ray (1979)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden
Director: Hal Ashby
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BEING THERE is based on Jerzy Kosinski's short comic novel about a simpleton, Chance (Peter Sellers), raised in isolation whose only education came from watching TV. When he's forced out of the house where he worked as a gardener by the death of the wealthy recluse who raised him from infancy, he's ..read more »

72% from 455 members

Coming Home on DVD (1978)
Starring: Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern
Director: Hal Ashby
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When Sally Hyde's (Jane Fonda) husband, a ramrod-straight marine captain, Bob Hyde (Bruce Dern), is sent to Vietnam, she leaves the isolated world of the officer's quarters and begins volunteer social work at the veterans hospital. There her unthinking support of the war and her blindness to its ..read more »

69% from 700 members

Bound For Glory on DVD (1976)
Starring: David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon
Director: Hal Ashby
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Hal Ashby's film of Woody Guthrie's autobiography, BOUND FOR GLORY, recounts the protest singer's life starting when he's a young man with a wife and two children, trying to find work as a sign painter in the Dust Bowl-ravaged Texas of the 1930s. He leaves his wife, Mary (Melinda Dillon), with her ..read more »

61% from 441 members

Shampoo on DVD (1975)
Starring: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn
Director: Hal Ashby
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A frankly adult comedy about the sex lives of the aimless and the rich, Shampoo is also a pointed commentary on the demise of 1960s idealism at the dawn of the Nixon era. It is Election Day, 1968, and randy Beverly Hills hairdresser George Roundy (Warren Beatty) is too worried about attending to ..read more »

52% from 1,305 member

The Last Detail on DVD (1973)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Otis Young, Randy Quaid
Director: Hal Ashby
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Two Navy lifers and one military innocent briefly attempt to thumb their nose at Authority in Hal Ashby's The Last Detail (1973). Badass Buddusky (Jack Nicholson) and Mule Mulhall (Otis Young) are assigned to escort young sailor Meadows (Randy Quaid, who beat out John Travolta for the part) from ..read more »

68% from 2,040 members

Harold And Maude on DVD (1971)
Starring: Bud Cort, Ruth Gordon, Cyril Cusack
Director: Hal Ashby
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In the long ago days before video when access to anything but first-run Hollywood movies was limited to repertory houses and college film societies, Hal Ashby's HAROLD AND MAUDE, while not what one would call an underground film, achieved cult status, becoming one of the most popular American films ..read more »

74% from 6,595 members

Eight Million Ways To Die - 2.5 stars
Being There - 3.5 stars
Being There - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Coming Home - 3.5 stars
Bound For Glory - 3.0 stars

Harold And Maude - 4.0 stars
Being There - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Coming Home - 3.5 stars
Being There - 3.5 stars
The Last Detail - 3.5 stars

Eight Million Ways To Die - 2.5 stars
Shampoo - 2.5 stars
Bound For Glory - 3.0 stars
The Last Detail - 3.5 stars
Being There - 3.5 stars

Jack Warden - 3 times - show films
Richard Dysart - 2 times - show films
Peter Sellers - 2 times - show films
Melvyn Douglas - 2 times - show films
Randy Quaid - 2 times - show films