When Harold and Maude came out in 1971, my older brother went to see it (then a daring college undergraduate) and recounted the entire movie to his younger four brothers at night after the lights went out (Three in one bed, two top to bottom, the other bottom to top, and two in the other bed. Them was the days.)
It's an uplifting anti-war dark comedy about a teenage boy and a woman turning 80 with the message that you should do your own thing and f... the begrudgers.
I didn't get to see it myself until the mid-seventies but I enjoyed watching this old trailer tonight as much as I enjoyed it on first viewing.
I suspect it's going to make a comeback.
And final word on the Lock Keepers Cafe: the guys running it do a bang-up job. I've only been there once — in November of this year with Ivan Little for coffee before the Aisling bash (two 'crack' journalists and we missed the story) — and afterwards told everyone about its excellent standards. So kudos to the owners.
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I dunno...
I rather had The Graduate in mind.
But then of course, a Queensboro New Yorker would, given the Simon & Garfunkel soundtrack...
"Well, here's to you, Mrs. Robinson..."
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Definitely one of my all-time favorites!
Mairtin
was this mention of the Lock Keeper's Cafe pre or post the Spotlight programme? ie are you clairvoyant, along with your other skills?
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