A deadpan young man obsessed with death meets an eccentric septuagenarian who teaches him to live life to the fullest.
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Ruth Gordon
Maude
Bud Cort
Harold
Vivian Pickles
Mrs. Chasen
Cyril Cusack
Glaucus
Charles Tyner
Uncle Victor
Ellen Geer
Sunshine Doré
Eric Christmas
Priest
G. Wood
Psychiatrist
Judy Engles
Candy Gulf
Shari Summers
Edith Phern
Director
Hal Ashby
Tagline
"They were meant to be. But exactly what they were meant to be is not quite clear."
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$1,200,000
Production
Paramount Pictures, Mildred Lewis and Colin Higgins Productions
CinemaSerf
November 4, 2022
So poor little rich kid "Harold" (Bud Cort) really does like a bit of attention seeking - constantly vying for the recognition of his mother by faking every more outlandish suicide attempts. Things is, she (Vivian Pickles) is pretty impervious to his antics and so he seeks something to alleviate his boredom elsewhere... He starts attending funerals. That's where he encounters the eccentric "Maude"...
Filipe Manuel Neto
July 7, 2023
**Knowing how to live or knowing how to die are virtues, difficult and debatable themes that a film almost never has the courage to address.** Harold is a young man, just arrived at adulthood, who has a morbid fascination with death: he drives hearses, goes to funerals for “fun”, rehearses his own suicide a thousand and one times. He will change under the influence of an elderly woman, whose de...
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