Starring Ruth Gordon as lively 79 year old Maude, Bud Cort as young, depressed, death obsessed Harold, and Vivian Pickles as the snobbish, selfish mother, who doesn’t understand her son, at all. I had to laugh so many times, it’s not predictable what happens next and I have no idea how Harold comes up with so many fake suicides, only to get his mothers attention of course. The love Harold and Maude develop is unusual but pure, Mrs. Gordon did an excellent job portraying Maude. 

Plot:

The self-destructive and needy wealthy teenager Harold is obsessed by death and spends his leisure time attending funerals, watching the demolishing of buildings, visiting junkyards, simulating suicides trying to get attention from his indifferent, snobbish and egocentric mother, and having sessions with his psychologist.When Harold meets the anarchist Maude at a funeral, they become friends and the old lady discloses other perspectives of the cycle of life for him. Meanwhile, his mother enlists him in a dating service and tries to force Harold to join the army. But he wants to control his own life.

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR-OojNoVDg