HAROLD AND MAUDE

Friday, July 30th
and Saturday, July 31st at 10:00 p.m.
Admission: $6.00

LATE NIGHT CULT CLASSIC PRESENTED BY BOOKMANS
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THE GREATEST CULT MOVIES OF ALL-TIME ARE BACK ON THE BIG SCREEN IN 35 MM!

"One of the '70s quirkiest comedies, and its bleak morbidity is uncommonly matched by its over-the-top hilarity. One of the true cult classics." - Christopher Null, AMC FILMCRITIC.COM

"They met at the funeral of a perfect stranger. From then on, things got perfectly stranger and stranger."

In the days before home video, when access to anything but first-run Hollywood movies was limited to repertory houses and college film societies, Hal Ashby's weird and wonderful HAROLD AND MAUDE achieved major cult status and became a surprise hit, playing in some theaters for several years straight!
On the surface, this hilarious black comedy is a simple (if somewhat twisted) love story about how opposites attract--only, this time around, he's 19 and she's 79. But on a deeper level, it's about the importance of being an individual in a world of conformity.
Morbid teenager Harold, played with deadpan humor by Bud Cort (Brewster McCloud), is under extreme pressure from his overbearing mother, Mrs. Chasen (Vivian Pickles), to enter the dating world. Unfortunately, the shy and death-obsessed Harold would rather spend his time attending the funerals of complete strangers and creating elaborate fake suicides to frighten off prospective girlfriends. One day, at a funeral, he meets Maude (Ruth Gordon, an Oscar winner for Rosemary's Baby), who's physically elderly but who has the spunk and energy of a teenager. Maude is convinced that Harold needs to come out of his shell and enjoy life, so she brings him into hers, and their ensuing taboo relationship causes a chain reaction of calamity among the disapproving outsiders who just don't understand.