Harold and Maude

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.

Cast

Ruth Gordon

as Maude

Bud Cort

as Harold

Vivian Pickles

as Mrs. Chasen

Cyril Cusack

as Glaucus

Charles Tyner

as Uncle Victor

Ellen Geer

as Sunshine Doré

Eric Christmas

as Priest

G. Wood

as Psychiatrist

Judy Engles

as Candy Gulf

Shari Summers

as Edith Phern

Reviews

CinemaSerf

So poor little rich kid "Harold" (Bud Cort) really does like a bit of attention seeking - constantly vying for the recognition of his mother by faking every more outlandish suicide attempts. Things is, she (Vivian Pickles) is pretty impervious to his antics and so he seeks something to alleviate his...

Filipe Manuel Neto

**Knowing how to live or knowing how to die are virtues, difficult and debatable themes that a film almost never has the courage to address.** Harold is a young man, just arrived at adulthood, who has a morbid fascination with death: he drives hearses, goes to funerals for “fun”, rehearses his ow...

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