This week on Total Movie Recall, we watch the first Manic Pixie Dream Girl ever on screen, who is not a girl at all, but is most decidedly a woman. It’s the perfect post-2020 movie, and not just because of the constant suicides. It’s twee and precious and we absolutely loved it.
Harold & Maude (1971)
d. Hal Ashby
w. Colin Higgins
Music by: Cat Steven (Yusuf Islam)
Starring:
Ruth Gordon
Bud Cort
Vivian Pickles
Cult classic pairs Cort as a dead-pan disillusioned 20-year-old obsessed with suicide and a loveable Gordon as a fun-loving 80-year-old eccentric. They meet at a funeral, and develop a taboo romantic relationship, in which they explore the tired theme of the meaning of life with a fresh perspective.
Things discussed in the show:
Savages (Oliver Stone, Shane Salerno, Don Winslow, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively)
Santa Muerte
Dunkirk (70mm, Christopher Nolan, Fionn Whitehead, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance)
Overlord (Julius Avery, Jova
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