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American Graffiti
American Graffiti is set in the evening before best friends and recent high school graduates, Curt Henderson and Steve Bolander. They are scheduled to leave town to head to college back east. They spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college. Meanwhile...
13 July 1942, Chicago, Illinois, USA
11 March 1952, Coatesville, Pennsylvania, USA
20 June 1947, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
30 October 1953, Van Nuys, California, USA
13 January 1931, Portland, Oregon, USA
14 December 1946, Los Angeles, California, USA
30 January 1951, San Francisco, California, USA
7 July 1946, San Francisco, California, USA
May 21, 2012
Playfully suggests what life was like for white teenagers in small-town America during the 1950s and early 1960s.
May 21, 2003
It is a very good movie, funny, tough, unsentimental.
June 24, 2006
The film that launched a thousand careers.
September 05, 2013
Anyone who has spent their teenage years cruising up and down Main Street will connect with the film... which is part of the reason I didn't.
July 07, 2014
Wonderfully evoking the feel and spirit of the era, this is one of those rare movies you live through rather than watch.
July 07, 2014
[A] hugely influential docu-drama.
June 27, 2007
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.
September 15, 2013
Nearly 40 years later it still plays as a loose and vibrant testament to an era that is so distinctly America.
June 27, 2007
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.
October 23, 2004
American Graffiti acts almost as a milestone to show us how far (and in many cases how tragically) we have come.
July 07, 2014
This superb and singular film catches not only the charm and tribal energy of the teen-age 1950s but also the listlessness and the resignation that underscored it all like an incessant bass line in one of the rock-'n'-roll songs of the period.
September 11, 2014
Maybe the best film about teenagers ever made.