The use of sound, editing, and period songs defines the characters and suffuses Lucas’s resonant joyride with California teens in 1962. The night air fills them with a sense of possibility even as high school is over, summer is ending, and college beckons (or not). The movie minted money as well as rising and future stars, and garnered multiple Oscar nods including Best Picture.
American Graffiti
1973, 112m, DCP, U.S.
Showtimes & Tickets
August 22–28
Part of the program
A film by George Lucas
Starring Richard Dreyfuss Ron Howard Paul Le Mat Charles Martin Smith Candy Clark Mackenzie Phillips Cindy Williams Wolfman Jack Harrison Ford