AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973)
Rated: PG - Rottentomatoes freshness score 95% (popcornmeter 84%), IMDB rating 7.4/10
Synopsis:
It's the last day of summer vacation, 1962, a time of hot rods and rock and roll, and a group of high school graduates are cruising main street and pondering what the morning will bring when they go their separate ways...to college or whatever is in their future.
Thoughts:
This was the second full-length movie by writer/director George Lucas - his first was THX 1138 (1971). It was also the first movie of his LucasFilms movie company.
If you've never had the chance to watch this movie, do yourself a huge favor and do it! Why? It's not rso much that this is an amazing cinematic experience, but it was either a springboard or breakout opportunity for a number of amazing young actors, some of whom became household names:
- Richard Dreyfuss
- Ron Howard
- Charles Martin Smith
- Cindy Williams
- Mackenzie Phillips
- Kathleen Quinlan
- Harrison Ford
One bit of trivia about this movie is that Harrison Ford was paid $500/week for four weeks of work. But, George Lucas got to know him during this project and just a few years later, Lucas gave Ford the role of Han Solo in STAR WARS, starting his rise to international stardom.
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