Bud Cort

...Harold and Maude. Her performance in the film begins with her deliciously wicked and nonchalant response to her young son's (played by Bud Cort's) mock-suicide, telling him not to be late for dinner, and it ends with a gloriously mysterious...

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...director Hal Ashby's dark, highly original 1971 comedy is the kind of movie you want to sit all your friends down to watch. Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon play the title characters, a death-obsessed young man and a 79-year-old woman who teaches...

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...revisit it now you have the link. Following the "brain theme" we move to 1990's BRAIN DEAD starring Bill Pullman, Bill Paxton, Bud Cort and featuring the great George Kennedy. CARNISAUR's Adam Simon made his directorial debut with this...

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...look into the camera, and it's like a footnote for everything to come, from the "The Office" to "Arrested Development." Starring Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon, "Harold and Maude" was Ashby's second feature as a director, and his use of music...

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...the Teacher? is a 1977 Canadian comedy-drama film based on a book of the same name by Max Braithwaite. The plot concerns Max Brown (Bud Cort) who travels to Western Canada in the mid-1930s to accept a teaching position at a small rural...

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...or Hepburn films for modern moviegoers. Brewster McCloud (1970): After interviewing him earlier this year, I'm convinced that Bud Cort is a genius. Unfortunately, after "Harold and Maude" and "M*A*S*H," most of his early movies aren't...

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...soundtrack, he fake-hangs himself right into the loving arms of a septuagenarian firecracker with a revolutionary outlook on life. Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon are wonderful as the quirky May-December lovers, but Vivian Pickles, as Harold's...

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...the '70s Is there a more iconic onscreen odd couple in coming-of-age films than 19-year-old amateur suicide artist Harold (Bud Cort) and the frisky, life-loving septuagenarian Maude (Ruth Gordon)? Harold and Maude (1971) also brought one of...

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...colleagues still invariably remember him as good and talented and warm. Many actors - David Carradine in "Bound for Glory," Bud Cort in "Harold and Maude" - hit their personal peaks in Ashby films. Several won Oscars. Those who survived...

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Article:SF Sketchfest salutes cult film star Bud Cort:/c/a/2009/01/14/DDGB159AHQ.DTL It's unlikely that Bud Cort will get lost on the way to his SF Sketchfest appearance next week in San Francisco. While he's a New York native and...

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