Harold and Maude | reviewed by: Lee Weber | May 26, 2012
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Wes Anderson eat your heart out. It feels like he could have made this-but it's better than his best. This is a classic American cinema.
| genre | Romance |
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| synopsis | The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude who also lives in her own world yet one in which she is having the time of her life. When the two opposites meet they realize that their differences don’t matter and they become best friends and love each other. |
| lead actors | Ruth Gordon | Bud Cort | Cyril Cusack | Charles Tyner | Ellen Geer | Eric Christmas | G. Wood | Judy Engles | Shari Summers | Vivian Pickles |
| director | Hal Ashby |