They met at the funeral of a perfect stranger. From then on, things got perfectly stranger and stranger. Hal Ashby’s beloved black comedy is the perfect mix of macabre humor and sweet romance, following a young man adrift from his wealthy family, the death-obsessed Harold (Bud Cort), who finds love & friendship when he meets the eccentric, seventy-nine-year-old Maude (Ruth Gordon). Backed by the timeless music of Cat Stevens, Harold and Maude is a cult classic that will make you want to sing out.
“A very funny comedy of the absurd.” – Charles Champlin, Los Angeles Times
“The movie is a paean to outsiders and reckless love.” – Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
“It’s to director Hal Ashby’s credit that he succeeds in maintaining an unsettling tone of pre-Lynchian absurdism throughout, while also pulling the viewer into a touching love story between perhaps the most unlikely couple in cinema history.” – Jane Graham, The Guardian
