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American Graffiti
Directed by
George Lucas
PG
1973
1h 50m
Comedy
,
Drama
7.4
95%
84%
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A group of teenagers in California's central valley spend one final night after their 1962 high school graduation cruising the strip with their buddies before they pursue their varying goals.
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Cast of American Graffiti
Richard Dreyfuss
Curt Henderson
Ron Howard
Steve Bolander
Paul Le Mat
John Milner
Charles Martin Smith
Terry 'The Toad' Fields
Cindy Williams
Laurie Henderson
Candy Clark
Debbie Dunham
Mackenzie Phillips
Carol
Wolfman Jack
XERB Disc Jockey
Bo Hopkins
Joe Young
Manuel Padilla Jr.
Carlos
Beau Gentry
Ants
Harrison Ford
Bob Falfa
Jim Bohan
Holstein
Jana Bellan
Budda
Deby Celiz
Wendy
Lynne Marie Stewart
Bobbie
Terence McGovern
Mr. Wolfe
Kathleen Quinlan
Peg
Timothy F. Crowley
Eddie
Scott Beach
Mr. Gordon
John Brent
Car Salesman
Gordon Analla
Bozo
John Bracci
Station Attendant
Jody Carlson
Girl in Studebaker
Del Close
Man at Bar (Guy)
Stephen Knox
Kid at Accident
Joe Miksak
Man at Liquor Store
George Meyer
Bum at Liquor Store
James Cranna
Thief
Johnny Weissmuller Jr.
Badass #1
William Niven
Clerk at Liquor Store
Al Nalbandian
Hank
Bob Pasaak
Dale
Christopher Pray
Al
Susan Richardson
Judy
Jan Dunn
Old Woman
Charlie Murphy
Old Man
Ed Greenberg
Kip
Lisa Herman
Girl in Dodge
Mark Anger
Mr. Kroot
Kay Lenz
Jane
Caprice Schmidt
Announcer at Dance
Joe Spano
Vic
Debralee Scott
Falfa's Girl
Ron Vincent
Jeff
Donna Wehr
Carhop
Cam Whitman
Balloon Girl
Jan Wilson
Girl at Dance
Suzanne Somers
Blonde in T-Bird
Fred Ross
Ferber
George Lucas
Pinkie’s Pizza Employee (voice) (uncredited) / Director / Writer
Gloria Katz
Writer
Willard Huyck
Writer
Francis Ford Coppola
Producer
American Graffiti Ratings & Reviews
Michael Surber
April 4, 2025
What more did you need as a teen in the '60s other than a hot rod, some rock and roll and your girl by your side? A stellar cast in this one just makes it that much better. Current generations have no idea that life was really like this back then, in Cali anyway.
Slant Magazine
Jake Cole
The primary interest of American Graffiti is its setting and the nostalgia that it conjures.
The Blu Spot
Jeff Beck
American Graffiti is a classic coming-of-age flick that holds up rather well after 50 years. It may not be too heavy on plot, but it more than makes up for it with its charming characters, brought to life by a tremendous cast, and its rockin' soundtrack.
Chicago Daily News
David Elliott
I'm not sure I would have enjoyed their way of life, but it's a great one to remember, even if you didn't live it yourself, and it makes American Graffiti the ultimate nostalgia movie -- certainly the best teen-myth movie since Rebel Without a Cause.
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
The movie has no resonance except from the jukebox sound and the eerie, nocturnal jukebox look.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
A surprise blockbuster hit with an enormous and lasting cultural footprint.
Stream on Demand
Sean Axmaker
Nothing much really happens as they hit the sock-hop, cruise the strip, grab a bite at the drive-in, and square off in a drag race on the outskirts of town. It's more of a mosaic, jumping from character to character over the long, last night...
Crooked Marquee
Sean Burns
A wistful picture about the twilight of American innocence, set on the precipice of the Kennedy assassination and Vietnam. It's the last night of summer, in more ways than one.
Epoch Times
Mark Jackson
I admit it, seen it at least fifty times since 1973. Similar to Gone With the Wind American Graffiti packs a potent nostalgia which is why it always leaves you with a bittersweet ache.
The New Beverly
Quentin Tarantino
Like a lot of great nostalgia pieces (Meet Me in St. Louis, Summer of '42, Cooley High, New York New York, Dazed and Confused) it seems to get better the further it gets from its original release date.
TheIndependentCritic.com
Richard Propes
I was, and remain, very tempted to add this film to my Top 100.
Gone With The Twins
Mike Massie
A fun-filled cultural snapshot imbued with classic rock and reminiscence.
Esquire Magazine
John Simon
George Lucas has directed with a remarkably firm but unostentatious hand, two virtues equally rare in a young film maker.
The Hollywood Reporter
Alan R. Howard
The movie is a comic poem which celebrates the past but also catalogues its textures with telling precision. American Graffiti looks like no other movie, an achievement which is always the best measure of a truly gifted director.
TIME Magazine
Jay Cocks
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.
Beliefnet
Nell Minow
Brilliant and highly influential.
Variety
A.D. Murphy
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.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
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.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
American Graffiti acts almost as a milestone to show us how far (and in many cases how tragically) we have come.
New York Times
Roger Greenspun
It is a very good movie, funny, tough, unsentimental.
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