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Hal Ashby - what members say


  • Harold And Maude
  • Harold And Maude review by Clucky from Cardiff, Wales
    Rated - 5 stars 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 ...  
  • The Last Detail
  • The Last Detail review by sadako from sussex
    Rated - 3 stars 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...  
  • Shampoo
  • Shampoo review by sadako from sussex
    Rated - 2 stars 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...  

Hal Ashby - filmography


  • Being There on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Peter Sellers,  Shirley MacLaine,  Jack Warden
    Director: Hal Ashby
    Certificate: 12
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 73% from 946 members
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  • Coming Home on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Jane Fonda,  Jon Voight,  Bruce Dern
    Director: Hal Ashby
    Certificate: 18
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 72% from 143 members
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  • Bound For Glory on DVD (1976)
    Starring: David Carradine,  Ronny Cox,  Melinda Dillon
    Director: Hal Ashby
    Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.0 57% from 286 members
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  • Shampoo on DVD (1975)
    Starring: Warren Beatty,  Julie Christie,  Goldie Hawn
    Director: Hal Ashby
    Certificate: 18
    In the heady last few days before the 1968 election, George (Warren Beatty), a very popular Beverly Hills hairdresser who wants to open his own shop, becomes sexually involved with several, if not all, of his female customers. This fast-paced comedy, written by Robert Towne and directed by Hal ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 58% from 221 members
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  • The Last Detail on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Jack Nicholson,  Otis Young,  Randy Quaid
    Director: Hal Ashby
    Certificate: 18
    In THE LAST DETAIL the winning combination of director Hal Ashby, screenwriter Robert Towne, and actor Jack Nicholson turned an unheralded novel by Darryl Ponicsan into one of the first of what are now thought of as the classic films of the1970s. Navy lifers Badass Budduskey (Nicholson) and Mule ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 72% from 454 members
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  • Harold And Maude on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Bud Cort,  Ruth Gordon,  Cyril Cusack
    Director: Hal Ashby
    Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 77% from 1,265 members
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Hal Ashby - downloads


  • Shampoo for Download (1975)
    Starring: Warren Beatty,  Julie Christie,  Goldie Hawn
    Director: Hal Ashby
    Certificate: 18
    Rent from: £3.49
    Run time: 103 minutes
    In the heady last few days before the 1968 election, George (Warren Beatty), a very popular Beverly Hills hairdresser who wants to open his own shop, becomes sexually involved with several, if not all, of his female customers. This fast-paced comedy, written by Robert Towne and directed by Hal ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 70% from 1 members
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Hal Ashby facts

5 most recent films


Eight Million Ways To Die - 2.5 stars
Being There - 3.5 stars
Being There - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars
Coming Home - 3.5 stars
Bound For Glory - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films


Harold And Maude - 3.5 stars
Being There - 3.5 stars
The Last Detail - 3.5 stars
Coming Home - 3.5 stars
Bound For Glory - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films


Eight Million Ways To Die - 2.5 stars
Being There - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars
Shampoo - 2.5 stars
Bound For Glory - 3.0 stars
Coming Home - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars


Jack Warden - 4 times - show films
Tony Bill - 2 times - show films
Carrie Fisher - 2 times - show films
Shirley MacLaine - 2 times - show films
Lee Grant - 2 times - show films