Harold and Maude

Director: Hal Ashby Hal Ashby

Overview

Harold, the 20-year-old son of a wealthy, neglectful woman, tries to gain attention for himself with various hilariously staged "suicides." Obsessed with death, Harold meets a like-minded 79-year-old woman named Maude. Harold and Maude become inseparable friends, both helping each other out of various personal travails.

Product Details

Release Date:	03/09/2021
UPC:	0032429355492
Original Release:	1971
Rating:	PG
Source:	ALLIED VAUGHN
Language:	English
Time:	1:31:00
Sales rank:	13,945

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Bud Cort	Harold
Ruth Gordon	Maude
Vivian Pickles	Mrs. Chasen
Cyril Cusack	Glaucus
Charles Tyner	Onkel Victor
Ellen Geer	Sunshine
Eric Christmas	Priester
G. Wood	Psychiater,Actor
Judy Engles	Candy Gulf
Shari Summers	Edith Fern
Ray K. Goman	Polizist
Gordon DeVol	Polizist
Harvey Brumfield	Polizist
Henry Dieckoff	Butler
Philip Schultz	Arzt
Sonia Sorell	Oberschwester
Margot Jones	Actor
Barry Higgins	Actor,Actor
William Lucking	Actor
Susan Madigan	Actor
Jerry Randall	Actor
Tom Skerritt	Motorcycle Officer
M. Borman	Motorcycle Cop
Sonia Sorel	Head Nurse
Tom Skerrit	Actor
John A. Alonzo	Actor
Cat Stevens	Composer

Technical Credits

Colin Higgins

Hal Ashby	Director
A.D. Flowers	Special Effects
Colin Higgins	Producer,Screenwriter
Mildred Lewis	Executive Producer,Producer
Charles B. Mulvehill	Producer,Producer
Richard Portman	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer
Lynn Stalmaster	Casting
William Randall	Sound/Sound Designer
Frank Warner	Sound Editor

Editorial Reviews

"Harold and Maude has all the fun and gaiety of a burning orphanage" declared one critic in 1972 when this beloved cult favorite was first released. He and the other reviewers who dismissed the film didn't know what to make of a low-key black comedy about the oddball romance between a 20-year-old man (Bud Cort) and a 79-year-old woman (Ruth Gordon). Cort plays a self-absorbed rich kid obsessed with death; Gordon is an eccentric swinger exhilarated by life. She accompanies him to funerals; he becomes inspired by her joie de vivre. Director Hal Ashby (Being There) coaxed marvelous performances from goggle-eyed Cort, then a virtual unknown, and geriatric Gordon, a distinguished stage actress still basking in the afterglow of her Oscar win for a supporting role in 1968's Rosemary's Baby. Moviegoers fell in love with the film, which became a fixture on the midnight-movie circuit, then picked up new fans via TV syndication and video release. Harold and Maude continues to warm viewers' hearts and tickle their funny bones with its offbeat, life-affirming love story.