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03/06/04
American Graffiti (1973)
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Reviews Counted:32
Fresh:31
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.3/10
Consensus: One of the most influential of all teen films, American Graffiti is a funny, nostalgic, and bittersweet look at a group of recent high school grads' last days of innocence.
Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Set in 1962; Produced and released in 1973. AMERICAN GRAFFITI presents a powerful collage of youth on the brink of maturity just before the assassination of J.F.K.. Based on George Lucas's own... [More]
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Cindy Williams, MacKenzie Phillips
Director: George Lucas
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Reviews for American Graffiti
Lucas' direction is skilful and assured -- he follows several stories with wit and sensitivity -- and he's matched by his cast, the whole film perfectly evoking the end of an era.
05/06/08
A hallmark film of the 1970s.
07/30/03
A funny-serious movie with gorgeous cars and colours and an amazing feel for the artefacts of an instantly vanished era.
05/06/08
There is brilliant interplaying and underplaying, of script, performers and direction which will raise howls of laughter from audiences, yet never descends on the screen to overdone mugging, pratfall and other heavy-handed devices normally employed.
06/27/07
...the ultimate nostalgia movie of all time ...
12/06/05
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10/21/07
A brilliant work of popular art, it redefined nostalgia as a marketable commodity and established a new narrative style, with locale replacing plot, that has since been imitated to the point of ineffectiveness.
06/27/07
Top CriticA successful tribute to an era of optimism and competitiveness which was bitchin’ -- and now seems very far in the past.
05/04/05
American Graffiti still bears the mark of a superb filmmaking talent.
01/01/00
If Last picture Show presents gloomy portrait of small-town life prior to the advent of TV, Lucas moves the setting forward by a decade, in 1962, when TV had already become the mainstay of pop culture, though for his youths, radio is the relevant medium.
02/13/06
Director George Lucas has evoked the era in a most authentic, moving, and aesthetically pleasing way.
10/13/01
The film that launched a thousand careers.
06/24/06
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03/09/06
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09/03/02
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06/01/05
...not a bad film but not an exceptional one either. It's modestly entertaining to watch, but I didn't find it really involving
09/10/02
Teen tales don’t get much better than this.
01/01/00
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05/01/03
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