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...
9 March 1934, Manhattan, Kansas, USA
17 January 1946, Lavaca County, Texas, USA
1 August 1922, El Paso, Texas, USA
16 October 1946, San Bruno, California, USA
10 November 1959, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
11 March 1952, Coatesville, Pennsylvania, USA
22 September 1945, Rahway, New Jersey, USA
30 October 1953, Van Nuys, California, USA
14 December 1946, Los Angeles, California, USA
16 April 1913, Chicago, Illinois, USA
14 March 1938, Madison, Connecticut, USA
23 September 1940, San Francisco, California, USA
10 September 1952, USA
4 March 1953, Los Angeles, California, USA
14 October 1927, San Francisco, California, USA
1941, Cardenden, Fife, Scotland, UK
1 August 1947, Uniontown, Pennsylvania, USA
16 April 1907, Missouri, USA
19 November 1954, Pasadena, California, USA
29 October 1947, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
21 July 1963, San Francisco, California, USA
4 September 1947, Los Angeles, California, USA
September 11, 2014
Maybe the best film about teenagers ever made.
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.
June 24, 2006
The film that launched a thousand careers.
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.
October 23, 2004
American Graffiti acts almost as a milestone to show us how far (and in many cases how tragically) we have come.
September 15, 2013
Nearly 40 years later it still plays as a loose and vibrant testament to an era that is so distinctly America.
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.
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.
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.
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.
