Buy the video tape of Harold and Maude, 1971, with Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon, directed by Hal Ashby, written by Colin Higgins, original music by Cat Stevens, Cinematography by John Alonzo.

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This hugely popular cult hit from 1973 stars Bud Cort as an oddball young man named Harold who resorts to fake, elaborate suicides to get his rich mother's attention (unsuccessfully so). While attending the funerals of complete strangers for the heck of it, Harold meets a kindred spirit in the octogenarian Maude (Ruth Gordon), with whom he finds perfect compassion, companionship, intimacy, and finally a good reason to celebrate the living. Directed by Hal Ashby, the film is a pure, quirky delight that struck a strong core with audiences just beginning to look for alternative Hollywood fare at the time. Several set pieces, especially a few of Harold's more macabre and well-organized displays of self-destruction, are hilarious. Gordon went on to a nice career in character parts until her passing, while Cort, despite earning enormous affection from audiences for his part here, has been only sporadically seen. Harold and Maude remains one of those happy accidents of right cast, right story and director, and right timing for audiences. With a wonderful score of Cat Stevens songs. --Tom Keogh, Amazon