An offbeat road trip classic from director Paul Mazursky, Harry & Tonto is warm-hearted, poetic, exceptionally funny and beautifully bittersweet. Evicted when his apartment building is being torn down, a feisty New York widower (The Honeymooners’ Art Carney) sets off on a cross country adventure with his feline friend, encountering a host of eccentric characters along the way. The outstanding Carney won the Best Actor Oscar in a year that featured Dustin Hoffman (Lenny), Jack Nicholson (Chinatown), Albert Finney (Murder on the Orient Express) and Al Pacino (The Godfather: Part II).
“Here, [Art Carney] flowers as a movie star. The performance is totally original, all his own, and worthy of the Academy Award it received. It’s not easy to make comedies that work as drama, too. But Carney’s acting is so perceptive that it helps this material succeed.” – Roger Ebert
