Harold And Maude
Movie • 1971 • Comedy
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The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude who also lives in her own world yet one in which she is having the time of her life. When the two opposites meet they realize that their differences don’t matter and they become best friends and love each other.
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Are there abusive parents?
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Mom isn’t abusive per say, but definitely is emotionally unavailable and unsympathetic towards her son.
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There is a scene where two characters smoke hookah together.
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Lots of fake blood
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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No fingers or toes but a character pretends to chop off his hand with a cleaver
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Is there a hanging?
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A fake hanging opens the film. It could be upsetting if you came to the movie unaware of its sardonic nature.
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Is there throat mutilation?
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There is a faked scene of self harm where it appears someone has cut their own throat with very bloody results. It's not real, but it's staged like a jump scare.
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Is someone crushed to death?
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a car falls over a cliff to give the illusion that its driver has been crushed to death at the bottom but it is a fake-out
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There is a gory shot beginning at the 6 minute 50 second mark with lots of fake blood spattered around the room where the character pretended that he cut himself to death, it shows visible bloody wounds on his body. Bloody imagery and the scene ends at 7 minute 20 second mark.
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Is there amputation?
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There is a scene in which he pretends to chop off his own (fake) hand with a cleaver
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Fake hanging and fake drowning
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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The movie begins with a scene with a character that seemingly killed himself by hanging. After a few moments he starts to make sounds as if he is struggling to breath and slowly dying. He is fine.
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Is someone stabbed?
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It is fake and theatrical and silly with a very obvious fake knife
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Does someone fall to their death?
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it seems to happen, but it's a fake out
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Harold pretends to be unconscious during a number of his theatrical fake suicides.
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Is someone choked?
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A character grabs another character at the throat for a few second, but not in the attempt to choke him. He is talking about several ways to kill people and is ,,showing” what he means.
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Is someone burned alive?
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harold fools a woman into thinking he has set himself on fire (explicit)
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Death
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Maude kills herself by this method at the end
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We don’t know what happened to Harold’s father but he is referred to in past tense
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No razors on screen but during one of Harold’s “performances” it’s obvious that it’s meant to look like he slit his wrists
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Are there clowns?
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The only clown in this movie is Harold's mom
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Brief mention, not graphic at all!
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There are 2 instances of the characters interacting with cops (low stakes) but they totally clown on the cops' self aggrandizing idea of their authority so it's pretty anti-cop :)
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At the end
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there's a real suicide at the end, and numerous fake outs for the main character's mother's benefit, but as he says, 'I wouldn't call it for her benefit'. Its so brilliant. There is faked suicides of every kind. I love this movie
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The whole movie is about a kid who sets up pretend suicide scenes to freak out his mom, but someone does attempt for real in the film.
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The entire movie is based around a boy who pretends to self harm by depicting different su*cides, but there is self inflicted death at the end.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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there's a scene where Harold pretends to be mentally unstable and sadistic to dodge the draft, and he and Maude have staged a scene where he acts more and more unhinged until he eventually lashes out at Maude, chasing, yelling, swinging at and eventually pushing her to fall into the ocean
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Maude is revealed to have been in the concentration camps during the Holocaust. It is likely that she suffered/suffers with it, and her outlook on life is how she copes with it.
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The whole movie is around a character that pretends to commit suicide in several different ways. It is likely that he is depressed, although it is never confirmed. But the characters mother is worried about his behaviour (not in a caring way, sadly) and has him go to a psychoanalysist.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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No but there are scenes where he talks about why he pretends to kill himself. There is a scene where a character reveals that they have intentionally overdosed but is very calm and at peace with it.
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Is there screaming?
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Happy screaming early on, sad screaming later :(
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Harold pretends to perform cunnilingus on a big wooden vagina statue
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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At 8:28-40 he is going through a carwash that has lights that blink on and off between red and blue. At 21:05-34 cars with headlights at dusk on are driving down a path and there is a lens filter that makes them flare out, and they flash as obstacles pass in front of the headlights. At 1:16:05-41 they are at a carnival and there are many spinning and flashing lights as they exit the carnival ride. At 1:18:55-1:19:14 there is a shot of fireworks going off. At 1:25:54-1:26:01 red ambulance lights flash.
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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Are there fat jokes?
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His mother mentions that the "computer dating service" filters out fat people.
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Is there hate speech?
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Victor tells Harold there will be plenty "slant-eyed girls" in the war.
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Relationships
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Harold is 19 and Maude is 79
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Sex
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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No graphic sexual scenes happen, however there is a scene which shows two characters shirtless in bed together in the morning, implying that they were intimate the night before. One of the characters models in the nude (nothing graphic shown). There are some suggestive jokes, including one visual joke involving a very large wooden carving that looks like a certain anatomical part
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Are there nude scenes?
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nothing fully nude is shown, but one character models in the nude and you see her peeking around the sculpture. Two characters lie shirtless in bed together (nothing explicit shown)
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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The ending makes me cry everytime (and I've seen it 20+ times), but there is a feeling of catharsis, satisfaction and happiness that each character is better off and got what they wanted and needed. Bittersweet ending.
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Does a car crash?
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Maude is a very bad driver so any time she is behind the wheel, expect there to be squealing tires and other drivers honking at her
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Is there blood/gore?
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There is a gory shot beginning at the 6 minute 50 second mark with lots of fake blood spattered around the room where the character pretended that he cut himself to death, it shows visible bloody wounds on his body. Bloody imagery and the scene ends at 7 minute 20 second mark. There are many other scenes where he pretends to hurt/kill himself by means of hanging, drowning in a pool, shooting himself, setting himself on fire, chopping off his hand with a cleaver, and stabbing himself in a harakiri ritual.
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Does someone drown?
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Is there gun violence?
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At 19:22-20:53 the character loads a gun, aims it at his mother, then points it at himself and it realistically fires, and he falls back pretending he has been shot.
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