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...only a matter of time until someone tried to squeeze out a big-budget film like this. The film’s architects try too hard to latch onto an art-house fad that they don’t really understand, with results that feel forced. Periodically, for example, Harold??s wristwatch briefly becomes a character before disappearing again from the plot. This device does nothing to enhance the movie’s tone, and since there are no other cases of spontaneous anthropomorphism, it ends up becoming a cheap plot prop. Other points in the movie feature...
...seamlessly. She even demonstrated formidable hip-hop chops during the musical’s zany rap interludes. Goldstein’s saccharine sweet voice was oddly matched to the Lil’ Kim worthy lyrics she was required to recite, but “Maude and Harold?? was nothing if not a comedy of incongruities. Mitnick’s exceedingly hummable score swelled beneath the show-stopping musical numbers, but never overwhelmed the actors’ riotous vocal performances. Mitnick’s score alluded extensively to the wholesome showtunes of yesteryear’s Rogers and Hammerstein...
...apparently ice melts in the spring…So it’s going to be on roller skates,” Katz explains. Perhaps unsurprisingly, their play might just be the most bizarre show at Arts First—and the funniest. “Maude and Harold?? tells of an 80-year-old nursing home resident who falls in love with a 14-year-old girl he meets in a “Harold and Maude” chat room (he pretends to like the movie in order to “bond” with...
...time he was set to leave for Cambridge, Fingleton’s mother had kicked Harold out. The film shows a somber farewell between father and son, one of the last interactions they ever had before Harold??s death. Later, an ecstatic young Tony tries to convince his reluctant mother that Harvard is the right place for him. As it turns out, he was correct...
...can’t imagine,” he says, shaking his head. “You cannot imagine how peculiar it is, because everyone is running around saying ‘Tony’ and ‘Harold??…and I was on the set every day. And watching these scenes that I recalled so vividly!” He shakes his head again, adding, “It’s ‘Twilight Zone...