# Harold and Maude (1971 Jason's Pick)

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Podcast: [Awesome Movie Year](https://stenobird.com/podcast/awesome-movie-year-868341)
Published: 2025-12-17T05:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://awesomemovieyear.com/harold-and-maude-1971-jasons-pick
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## Resource

The eleventh episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1971 features Jason’s personal pick, Hal Ashby’s Harold and Maude . Directed by Hal Ashby from a screenplay by Colin Higgins and starring Bud Cort, Ruth Gordon, Vivian Pickles and Charles Tyner, Harold and Maude was a critical and commercial failure that has since become an enduring classic. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert ( https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/harold-and-maude-1972 ), Vincent Canby in The New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/21/archives/screen-harold-and-maude-and-lifehal-ashbys-comedy-opens-at-coronet.html ), and Richard McGuinness in The Village Voice . Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemovieyear.com and visit us on Facebook at  http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear   You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/ , on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/ You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/ , on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ , on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/ If you’re a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts. You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at  https://www.piecingpod.com , on Twitter at  @piecingpod , on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/  Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at  https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod for more…

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