American Graffiti
Where were you in '62?
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American Graffiti
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 12, 2016
- Originally Released: 1973
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ron Howard & Richard Dreyfuss | |
Performer: | Wolfman Jack, Harrison Ford, Bo Hopkins, Suzanne Somers, MacKenzie Phillips, Charles Martin Smith, Candy Clark, Cindy Williams & Paul Le Mat | |
Directed by | George Lucas | |
Edited by | Marcia Lucas & Verna Fields | |
Screenwriting by | Gloria Katz, George Lucas & Willard Huyck | |
Produced by | Francis Ford Coppola & Gary Kurtz | |
Director of Photography: | Jan D'Alquen & Ron Eveslage |
Entertainment Reviews:
[I]t felt new and fresh...
Premiere
Rating: 5/5 --
Wonderfully evoking the feel and spirit of the era, this is one of those rare movies you live through rather than watch.
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Radio Times
...Lucas beautifully establishes his characters...
Sight and Sound
... the music-filled picture still holds up nearly a half-century later.
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Solzy at the Movies
There is brilliant interplaying and underplaying, of script, performers and direction which will raise howls of laughter from audiences, yet never descends on the screen to overdone mugging, pratfall and other heavy-handed devices normally employed.
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Variety
The film that launched a thousand careers.
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Time Out
A brilliant work of popular art, it redefined nostalgia as a marketable commodity and established a new narrative style, with locale replacing plot, that has since been imitated to the point of ineffectiveness.
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Chicago Reader
Product Description:
Set in 1962; Produced and released in 1973.
AMERICAN GRAFFITI presents a powerful collage of youth on the brink of maturity just before the assassination of J.F.K.. Based on George Lucas's own teenage hot-rodding days in Modesto, California, this brilliant, bittersweet comedy inspired numerous other productions, including the long-running TV series HAPPY DAYS. Lucas's second feature film (following THX 1138), AMERICAN GRAFFITI contains an early screen appearance by Harrison Ford, who would figure heavily in the director's next movie, the sci-fi epic STAR WARS. The film follows one night in the lives of several recently graduated high school students. The genial Steve (Ron Howard) prepares to leave for college the next day, and Laurie (Cindy Williams), his girlfriend, is upset by his impending departure. Laurie's brother, Curt (Richard Dreyfuss), the class intellectual, is also slated for college, but he has serious doubts about his future. Also included here are the hopeless nerd (Charles Martin Smith) and the eternally cool drag racer, John (Paul LeMat), who feels pressure to live up to his reputation. A nostalgic feeling is evoked in seeing the teenagers cruising in their hot rods, eating at Mel's Diner, and listening to Wolfman Jack spin the latest hits, with the camera jumping from character to character as they each enjoy--or fret over--their last moments of summer freedom.
AMERICAN GRAFFITI presents a powerful collage of youth on the brink of maturity just before the assassination of J.F.K.. Based on George Lucas's own teenage hot-rodding days in Modesto, California, this brilliant, bittersweet comedy inspired numerous other productions, including the long-running TV series HAPPY DAYS. Lucas's second feature film (following THX 1138), AMERICAN GRAFFITI contains an early screen appearance by Harrison Ford, who would figure heavily in the director's next movie, the sci-fi epic STAR WARS. The film follows one night in the lives of several recently graduated high school students. The genial Steve (Ron Howard) prepares to leave for college the next day, and Laurie (Cindy Williams), his girlfriend, is upset by his impending departure. Laurie's brother, Curt (Richard Dreyfuss), the class intellectual, is also slated for college, but he has serious doubts about his future. Also included here are the hopeless nerd (Charles Martin Smith) and the eternally cool drag racer, John (Paul LeMat), who feels pressure to live up to his reputation. A nostalgic feeling is evoked in seeing the teenagers cruising in their hot rods, eating at Mel's Diner, and listening to Wolfman Jack spin the latest hits, with the camera jumping from character to character as they each enjoy--or fret over--their last moments of summer freedom.
Keywords:
Coming Of Age
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Classic
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Teenage
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Recommended
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Nostalgic
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Sixties
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Theatrical Release
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1960s
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Essential Cinema
Product Info
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