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...
10 November 1959, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
14 December 1946, Los Angeles, California, USA
2 February 1942, Greenville, South Carolina, USA
1941, Cardenden, Fife, Scotland, UK
16 April 1907, Missouri, USA
15 September 1921, San Francisco, California, USA
13 January 1931, Portland, Oregon, USA
22 September 1945, Rahway, New Jersey, USA
September 11, 2014
Maybe the best film about teenagers ever made.
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.
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.
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.
October 23, 2004
American Graffiti acts almost as a milestone to show us how far (and in many cases how tragically) we have come.
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.
May 21, 2003
It is a very good movie, funny, tough, unsentimental.
June 24, 2006
The film that launched a thousand careers.
July 07, 2014
[A] hugely influential docu-drama.
May 21, 2012
Playfully suggests what life was like for white teenagers in small-town America during the 1950s and early 1960s.
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 15, 2013
Nearly 40 years later it still plays as a loose and vibrant testament to an era that is so distinctly America.
