TMR 065 – Harold and Maude

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, Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Mathilde Ollivier)

Tenet (Christopher Nolan, John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki)

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