

Harold and Maude
They were meant to be. But exactly what they were meant to be is not quite clear.
A deadpan young man obsessed with death meets an eccentric septuagenarian who teaches him to live life to the fullest.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $1.2M
- Box office
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- Language
- English
- dying and death
- depression
- suicide
- life and death
- age difference
- birthday
- suicide attempt
- dead wish
- cemetery
- life planning
- banjo
- cliff
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG20 Dec 1971
- PhysicalPG29 May 1990
- PremiereMill Valley Film Festival11 Oct 2017
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1527 Apr 1972
AustraliaAU
- Theatrical (limited)MMelbourne International Film Festival4 Aug 2012
CanadaCA
- Theatrical20 Dec 1971
BrazilBR
- Physical1423 Apr 2010
- Physical1212 Sept 2019
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical22 Oct 1973
FinlandFI
- Theatrical20 Apr 1973
FranceFR
- Theatrical23 Aug 1972
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1219 Apr 1974
Hong KongHK
- Theatrical21 Feb 1974
IrelandIE
- Theatrical156 Jul 1973
ItalyIT
- Theatrical23 Apr 1974
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Harold and Maude was released on 20 December 1971.
Audience reviews
2- C7/10
CinemaSerf
11/4/2022
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" (Ruth Gordon) who a…
- F7/10
Filipe Manuel Neto
7/7/2023
**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 desire to live every m…
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