Harold And Maude Reviews

Call it bad taste, but rarely has such a strange love affair been presented so charmingly as the one here between morbid young Harold (Bud Cort) and 79-year-old concentration camp survivor Maude (Ruth Gordon). Depressed by life, and rejected by his wealthy mother (Vivian Pickles), the death-fascinated Harold drives a hearse to funerals, meets the skittish Maude, and falls in love. A cult classic, the film started life as a graduate thesis by Colin Higgins, whose landlady helped him to set it up for direction by Hal Ashby. The performances are a delightful bonus in a movie that, for all its eccentricities, likes people.

Often hilarious black comedy for those who can stand it; the epitome of bad taste, splashed around with wit and vigour, it became a minor cult.

Like Bob Rafelson, a director similarly obsessed with the trials and tribulations of the children of the rich, Ashby... read more on Time Out

Call it bad taste, but rarely has such a strange love affair been presented so charmingly as the one here between morbid young Harold (Bud Cort) and 79-year-old concentration camp survivor Maude (Ruth Gordon). Depressed by life, and rejected by his wealthy mother (Vivian Pickles), the death-fascinated Harold drives a hearse to funerals, meets the skittish Maude, and falls in love. A cult classic, the film started life as a graduate thesis by Colin Higgins, whose landlady helped him to set it up for direction by Hal Ashby. The performances are a delightful bonus in a movie that, for all its eccentricities, likes people.

Often hilarious black comedy for those who can stand it; the epitome of bad taste, splashed around with wit and vigour, it became a minor cult.

Like Bob Rafelson, a director similarly obsessed with the trials and tribulations of the children of the rich, Ashby... read more on Time Out