Open iTunes to preview, buy, and download this movie.
Plot Summary
A teenager with a death wish and a 79-year-old high on life find love in Hal Ashby's cult black comedy. Deadpan rich boy Harold (Bud Cort) keeps staging elaborate suicide tableaux to get the attention of his mother (Vivian Pickles), but she keeps planning.
Credits
Director
Screenwriter
Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
TOMATOMETER
86%- Reviews Counted: 42
- Fresh: 36
- Rotten: 6
- Average Rating: 7.7/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: The fact that [it] isn't very funny and, like its 80-year-old heroic, long outlives its necessary life, is less important than the fact that the characters frequently react gently or like credible human beings to the script's impossible notions.
Fresh: It is most successful when it keeps to the tone of an insane fairystory set up at the beginning of the movie.
Fresh: They remain among cinema's most disconcerting odd couples.
Customer Reviews
Sing Out! (Best Film Ever)
This is my favorite movie. It comes on strong with comedy, and heart. Not everyone will be able to get past the elderly woman- 17 year old boy couple, but in essence that is not what the movie is about. Harold is a depressed, theatrical, death- obsessed teenager whose life is changed when he meets Maude. Maude is everything Harold is not. She lives every day to the fullest and is a very liberated person. Together they realize that love can make the world a better place. The Cat Stevens sound track perfectly compliments the movie. Bud Cort completley BECOMES Harold and Ruth Gordon is the perfect match for the role of Maude. Truely an "odd couple" these two will steal you heart as they go to funerals, "borrow" cars, and plant trees. Come to this movie with an open mind and you realize just what a masterpiece it really is.
WE should be able to buy it
This movie is amazing, i liked it since the first time i saw it when i was about 7..(ha-ha)..anyways i really think you should became to buy it on itunes . NOT JUST RENT IT!!!!!!
Best movie ever made.
Of all the movies I've ever seen, this is the absolute best... hands down.
Viewers Also Bought
- Annie Hall
- Woody Allen
- View In iTunes
- The Graduate
- Mike Nichols
- View In iTunes
- Cabaret
- Bob Fosse
- View In iTunes
- Benny & Joon
- Jeremiah S. Chechik
- View In iTunes
- $12.99
- Genre: Comedy
- Released: 1971
- © 1971 Paramount Pictures and Mildered Lewis and Colin Higgins Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved.