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Summary:
A young man 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 his brilliant future for him instead. Obsessed with the trappings of death, Harold freaks out his blind dates, modi... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
Ruth Gordon - (Maude)
Bud Cort - (Harold Chasen)
Vivian Pickles - (Mrs. Chasen)
Cyril Cusack - (Sculptor)
Charles Tyner - (Uncle Victor)
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Review:
In his second feature as a director after his Oscar-winning success as an editor, Hal Ashby complements Colin Higgins' script (adapted by Higgins from his own student short) with an affectionately non-judgmental view of quirky behavior and a distaste for institutions of authority. In their deft hands, Harold Chasen may be weird -- but h... Continue >>

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