It is most successful when it keeps to the tone of an insane fairystory set up at the beginning of the movie.
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06/24/06
Harold and Maude (1971)
86 %
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Reviews Counted: 36
Fresh: 31
Rotten:5
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Reviews for Harold and Maude
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Top Critic A doggedly eccentric film which some will reject out of hand. Others will find it profundly moving and life affirming.
10/24/07
Simpleminded, but it's fairly inoffensive, at least until Ashby lingers over the concentration-camp serial number tattooed on Gordon's arm. Some things are beyond the reach of whimsy.
10/24/07
It's not quite a romance, not quite a buddy picture. It is, however, one of the '70s quirkiest comedies, and its bleak morbidity is uncommonly matched by its over-the-top hilarity.
08/23/05
[Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon] both are so aggressive, so creepy and off-putting.
05/09/05
Top Critic The epitome of a film that you can't believe you're laughing at, but you are. A lot. It hurts. In a good way.
02/11/05
The visual style makes everyone look fresh from the Wax Museum, and all the movie lacks is a lot of day-old gardenias and lilies and roses in the lobby, filling the place with a cloying sweet smell. Nothing more to report today.
10/23/04
Top Critic
By turns funny, moving and outrageous – sometimes all at once – the film is Hal Ashby's masterpiece.
09/08/04
Certainly a little twisted, but with such a powerfully warm 70's sunflower heart, "Harold and Maude" endears. I think of it as the cinematic equivalent to "The Little Prince"
08/17/04
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