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Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, Cindy Williams, Mackenzie Phillips, Candy Clark, Bo Hopkins, Harrison Ford, Wolfman Jack (more)VOD (3)
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This classic, directed by George Lucas and produced by Francis Ford Coppola, features the coming of age of four teenagers on their last summer night before college. Rediscover drag racing, drive-ins and Inspiration Point in this nostalgic look back at the early 60's that also brings you an incredible soundtrack with the most memorable rock n roll tracks of the era. Starring Harrison Ford, Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard and Charlie Martin Smith, American Graffiti captures the heart and spirit of America's last age of innocence. (Universal Pictures UK)
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The best film by George Lucas. It's a great shame that he forever devoted himself to a galaxy far away and a certain adventurer with a hat, because here he was able to perfectly create a small-town atmosphere in the intimate genre and tell a story with all aspects of a social/existential drama that at the same time remains a sufficiently light-hearted teenage comedy. The key is that until the very end, it's not clear which level the script will lean towards. Whether it will let the heroes mature definitively over the course of a single night or give them a painful lesson. And perhaps it manages to do both completely effortlessly.
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Youth, fun, hormones, cars, the life ahead. American Graffiti is an endearing look into American youth culture in the 1970s. Practically the whole movie is made up of a few guys and girls cruising in a small town. It is not only nostalgically naïve, refined and pleasant, but also historically valuable. In how many films can we see the now-great director Ron Howard in one of the lead roles or the young rookie Harrison Ford as a rakish redneck?
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Or how George Lucas introduced himself in a way that normal audiences could tolerate. It must be said that I didn't really expect much from the movie. It's still just a film about American youth, but it's a surprisingly good film that shows how the youth lived and what they wanted or didn't want. It's human, it's very relatable, and you don't even think about the guy making a Star Wars movie afterward.
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Lucas is awesome. A film that encapsulates exactly the wonderful atmospheric feeling I imagine when talking about the American sixties. Of course, the incredibly packed soundtrack, which can be heard almost continuously from the radio or during live performances, plays an important role, but the depiction of the youthful mood of the time, the haphazard search for oneself, the hesitation between the unbound enjoyment of life and the movement towards adult responsibility, between superficial foolishness and real experience, is also palpably real. I can't think of any other film I've seen that has left me depressed at not being able to experience the era it describes – endless evenings in drive-ins, on lively big-city streets with a James Dean-like hairdo (more like Yul Brynner in my case :), or on arid country roads, toting my father's old Trabant with a cowboy hat. A work much more nostalgic and naive than progressive, but nevertheless ageless and beautiful. And it's interesting to see that Richard Dreyfuss looked fifteen years younger in 1973 than he did two years later on the set of Jaws…
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To fully enjoy Lucas's film, I would have to be a few years younger, or a few years older. It is a film about American teenagers for American teenagers. There is no sensitive exploration into their lives. Fast cars, aimless wandering, first love experiences, and boys' rivalry - in short, the usual offer for this age category. This piece from overseas really doesn't have a lot of depth. If I give it 3 stars, it's only because of the enjoyable soundtrack, which features quite famous tracks, some of which can be considered part of the golden age of pop music. Overall impression: 60%.
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