![]() Along a few days, Maude gives a lesson of life to Harold, changing his behavior and feelings forever. Maude is an anarchist old woman not attached to material stuff like properties or collections that steals cars for self-locomotion. He found in his childhood the only moment that she really seemed to be worried about him after a serious accident in school and he uses to fake suicides trying to have the same attention back. The complex Harold is a young man that needs the attention of his indifferent mother. ![]() The cult "Harold and Maude" was a huge success in Brazil for people of my generation with a refreshing and funny exposition of themes like death, love and life through the friendship and love of a teenager and a septuagenarian woman. On the day of the eightieth anniversary of Maude, Harold proposes her but he finds the truth about the end of the cycle of life. Meanwhile his mother enlists him in a dating service and tries to force Harold to join the army. When Harold meets the anarchist seventy nine year-old Maude (Ruth Gordon) at a funeral, they become friends and the old lady discloses others perspectives of the cycle of life for him. ![]() The self-destructive and needy wealthy teenager Harold (Bud Cort) is obsessed by death and spends his leisure time attending funerals, watching demolishing of buildings, visiting junkyards, simulating suicides trying to get attention of his indifferent, snobbish and egocentric mother and having sessions with his psychologist. ![]()
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