American Graffiti
by George Lucas
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Actor: Charles Martin Smith, Cindy Williams, Paul Le Mat, Richard Dreyfuss, Ron HowardDirector: George Lucas
Brand: Universal
Cinematographer: Jan D'Alquen
Cinematographer: Ron Eveslage
Writer: George Lucas
Producer: Francis Ford Coppola
Producer: Gary Kurtz
Writer: Gloria Katz
Writer: Willard Huyck
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.35:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-09-16
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Reviews of American Graffiti
DVD Review: American Graffiti
Summary: 5 Stars
Great movie about my teenage years.
(late 50's, early 60's). It was like a documentary!
DVD Review: I was there in '62
Summary: 4 Stars
Like Grease, this is a generational classic captured in the wild by George Lucas. I was in high school in 1962 and my brother was away at college.
He had a purple hot rod Mercury that got stolen in '62.
For us this was a movie about the end of childhood.
Rock and Roll will always be deep in our hearts.
Wolfman Jack was a real disk player in the 60's the LA area:
I had a friend in college who was devoted to his show.
The Viet Nam war changed everything...
The Beatles replaced Elvis and we couldn't afford the gas for muscle cars after '75. I didn't see this movie when it came out, but heard a lot about it.
It was good for the hot rod business of old classic cars that my Dad the hot rodder had.
The past is gone: we have to face the present, but I still loved this movie.
DVD Review: 3 stars out of 4
Summary: 4 Stars
The Bottom Line:
An engaging-enough nostalgia piece, American Graffiti has an entirely undeserved reputation as a classic but it's sweet and enjoyable enough to be worth recommending even if it feels somewhat slow due to its unplotted, episodic nature.
DVD Review: Highly recommend
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great DVD. It is the regular full length movie with additional features at the end explaining how, where and when the movie was filmed. There were funny stories about the process you wouldn't have known without this.DVD Review: Get in the T-Bird!
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this ages ago, and we all grew up with ghosts of Happy Days flitting past us making us nostalgic to a California era (and its music) that occurred ten years before we were born, so it was interesting to see it again now that I too am going through a phase of listening to "golden oldie" bands, although in my case it's the feedback-drenched psychadelia of Blue Cheer and the Yardbirds. American Grafitti is a great film, full of funny characters and good dialogue, fantastic editing, and great tunes - so good, in fact, that it's hard to believe that it came from the mind that produced the screenplay for The Phantom Menace. There's a young pre-fame Harrison Ford driving around prepping for his next role as Han Solo, and also Richard Dreyfuss as a college-bound kid wondering whether he should stick around town or look around a bit. Lots of nuances, which is a word you don't often use when describing George Lucas, such as the scene when Richard Dreyfuss has a talk with his teacher, and a girl comes up at the end of the conversation and says "teach, can I talk with you for a minute?" The scene is pregnant with meaning, but Lucas is subtle (?!?) about it and drops the story and moves on. There's also good fun when Dreyfuss (he seems to get all the best scenes) gets initiated into the local gang, the Pharaohs. It's such a very white white white town, that even the gangsters are white. To inject a bit of colour, though, Wolfman Jack has a great cameo. Suzanne Sommers as "the blonde in the T-bird" is basically unrecognizable, but hey - it's Chrissy!
Description of American Graffiti
Contains: the making of american graffiti documentary featuring interviews with director george lucas executive producer francis ford coppola and cast members plus never-before-seen screen tests of the cast and theatrical trailer. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 05/31/2005 Starring: Ron Howard Richard Dreyfuss Run time: 112 minutes Rating: PgHere's how critic Roger Ebert described the unique and lasting value of George Lucas's 1973 box-office hit, American Graffiti: "[It's] not only a great movie but a brilliant work of historical fiction; no sociological treatise could duplicate the movie's success in remembering exactly how it was to be alive at that cultural instant." The time to which Ebert and the film refers is the summer of 1962, and American Graffiti captures the look, feel, and sound of that era by chronicling one memorable night in the lives of several young Californians on the cusp of adulthood. (In essence, Lucas was making a semiautobiographical tribute to his own days as a hot-rod cruiser, and the film's phenomenal success paved the way for Star Wars.) The action is propelled by the music of Wolfman Jack's rock & roll radio show--a soundtrack of pop hits that would become as popular as the film itself. As Lucas develops several character subplots, American Graffiti becomes a flawless time capsule of meticulously re-created memory, as authentic as a documentary and vividly realized through innovative use of cinematography and sound. The once-in-a-lifetime ensemble cast members inhabit their roles so fully that they don't seem like actors at all, comprising a who's who of performers--some of whom went on to stellar careers--including Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfuss, Harrison Ford, Cindy Williams, Mackenzie Phillips, Charles Martin Smith, Candy Clark, and Paul Le Mat. A true American classic, the film ranks No. 77 on the American Film Institute's list of all-time greatest American movies. --Jeff Shannon
Here's how critic Roger Ebert described the unique and lasting value of George Lucas's 1973 box-office hit, American Graffiti: "[It's] not only a great movie but a brilliant work of historical fiction; no sociological treatise could duplicate the movie's success in remembering exactly how it was to be alive at that cultural instant." The time to which Ebert and the film refers is the summer of 1962, and American Graffiti captures the look, feel, and sound of that era by chronicling one memorable night in the lives of several young Californians on the cusp of adulthood. (In essence, Lucas was making a semiautobiographical tribute to his own days as a hot-rod cruiser, and the film's phenomenal success paved the way for Star Wars.) The action is propelled by the music of Wolfman Jack's rock & roll radio show--a soundtrack of pop hits that would become as popular as the film itself. As Lucas develops several character subplots, American Graffiti becomes a flawless time capsule of meticulously re-created memory, as authentic as a documentary and vividly realized through innovative use of cinematography and sound. The once-in-a-lifetime ensemble cast members inhabit their roles so fully that they don't seem like actors at all, comprising a who's who of performers--some of whom went on to stellar careers--including Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfuss, Harrison Ford, Cindy Williams, Mackenzie Phillips, Charles Martin Smith, Candy Clark, and Paul Le Mat. A true American classic, the film ranks No. 77 on the American Film Institute's list of all-time greatest American movies. Befitting that reputation, the collector's edition DVD includes a full-length commentary by Lucas, a behind-the-scenes featurette about the film's production, a photo gallery, and extensive production notes. --Jeff Shannon
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