Harold & Maude The End

[@misslovejoy1665]

I'm a 35 year old Harold and lost my Maude two months ago. I guess she just wanted me to embrace life and enjoy it to the fullest. Will try to give my best for her. I miss her.

[@guidine7]

Sorry to hear your loss 💁

[@utop.i.a.delica2916]

💞

[@belledecaucase]

Hugs ❤❤❤

[@tomy.1846]

Remember to be sure and "go on and love some more!" Be well!

[@walkerpeterson1149]

I can fully relate, I lost my Maude in 2013,I was this woman's carer ,we lived in the Santa Cruz mountains and used to take rides all over San Mateo and SF,we used to go to the same places as shown in the movies.she passed away in 2013.I first saw Harold and Maude in 1973, I never would have imagined having such a similar situation in my future.I miss my friend

[@Thor_92]

It's almost as if Harold and Maude became one and adopted each other's traits. Maude is the one who embraces life but she takes her own because she wants to go on her own terms. Harold is the one who is obsessed with death but when he is at the most difficult point of his life, he chooses to embrace life and take it in stride.

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

You could also argue that Harold was an overprivileged rich kid with no purpose in life, who had turned to perversity to ease his pain. Now that he wants to be a banjo star he's just taken another fork in the path of woe.

[@dopesick8004]

Wait Harold kills himself in the end? I don’t remember that. Maybe I blocked it out cause I myself have always been extremely suicidal. I thought the last scene was after he walks away with the banjo. Please get back to me because this might possibly be my favorite movie of all time. Thanks. And I hope you are doing well.....

[@ravenclaw8347]

@@dopesick8004 No Harold doesn't kill himself, only Maude does. The ironic part is, that Harold always pretended to kill himself, but lives in the end, while Maude is all about really living, but kills herself in the end.

[@elke4646]

Beautifully put. Yes, a great insight.

[@jackmace6531]

@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 lol wuuuut

[@octoberrosesaxon8818]

I thought of this movie today. After having suicidal ideation all weekend. I was walking and thought of this scene. Life’s to awesome and beautiful. I want to live. 🤍

[@SuperEholmes]

Don't ever do it.

[@chribourg2317]

I have watched this movie three times, once in my twenties, in my late thirties and now at 53. My younger friend who I watched it with said " you remind me of Maude" I said that's the nicest thing you've ever said to me. I've decided to retire from nursing and walk in Spain.

[@splatterhousecorrupt8520]

Its crazy how u go from thinking how can harold bang maude to thinking id totally bang that woman.

[@splatterhousecorrupt8520]

I love how the car DOESNT blow up.

[@MrAcarine]

The ending wasn't entirely sad. It looks like Harold has finally decided to embrace life.

[@gracestenberg4188]

+MrAcarine yes, in the end he chooses to walk away from his fixed beliefs about himself, because of maude's unconditional love

[@JeffFreemanPresents]

The very best thing about Ruth Gordon's performance is that Maude is anything but guileless. She knows exactly what she is doing, and she knows she is right. Nothing sad about that. Y'know, Collin Higgins wrote the genesis of this film when he was in grad school. Like Edna St. Vincent Millay and Renaissance, his piece is a preternaturally insightful take on life and death by someone who was quite young when they conceived it. i don't know what that means exactly, I just know that as I get older, it gives me comfort, and great hope.

[@JeffFreemanPresents]

Absolutely! The brilliant thing about the tattoo is that it is so very fleeting, but when you know its importance, everything - I mean everything - else she says takes on a different meaning. The depth of the moment when she tells Harold about her former beau becomes bottomless. Even seemingly meaningless lines like, "the police! always wanting to play games!" become part of Maude's final battle against tyranny.

[@jlbaker2000]

The closest to perfection I've ever experienced in a movie.

[@smanmmo6735]

Still makes me cry like a baby though

[@clover8051]

it feels like Harold is staying alive for Maude, because he knows that's what she would have wanted. it's so heartbreaking because they are soulmates.. and Harold has so much life left. But he's honoring Maude with every step he takes, every action, every breath... so beautiful

[@chichigotdayayo555]

Gay

[@tastetherainbow9643]

HAHAHA. - OMG, I just was totally useless for 15 mins I was laughing so much.

[@michellehuntington712]

Movies arn't like this anymore. This truly was one of the greatest movies I ever seen. As an adult I truly understand it now. It means a lot to me. Cat Stevens was the most on point way to go on this soundtrack.

[@mariedewitt5033]

This was a one of a kind film,imo

[@greentaigo2552]

You should watch The Holdovers

[@stupidhandles]

Films were never like this, just this one

[@markgiordonello6710]

the fact that maude put harold on his own path to surviving life with her death is her greatest lesson and legacy. this film will stay with you!

[@paunchcoorlightly4000]

this film saved my life.

[@tommyredgonzales9781]

Me toooooo..

[@octoberrosesaxon8818]

🤍

[@vonpiro2397]

you were in a fire or something? lol

[@gwendavila]

that's wonderful :)

[@gilberttheonionboi5723]

Same

[@tregibbs]

no words for how amazing this film is...

[@naomichadwick4223]

Or disturbing

[@jeandreattihope4075]

That is what i think

[@Sundardevsaha-e3k]

Just showed this movie to 5 classes of 8th graders. It's my favoriate movie of all time and now I'm happy that the magic has been passed on to another generation. God, I wish I had that car!

[@Treebard]

I first saw it in 10th grade (1973). Kids must be growing up faster these days.

[@bianca_cascade]

Yeah I'm not necessarily for imposing culture to this degree you showing it to 8th graders is wildly inappropriate

[@Sundardevsaha-e3k]

@@bianca_cascade Easy to make accusations without evidence. What's your evidence? Please enlighten me to your elevated perspective.

[@bianca_cascade]

@@Sundardevsaha-e3k You...said you showed this movie to 5 classes of 8th graders...I'm going off what you said

[@bed1562]

I used this in my film studies class for grade nine students and they loved it.

[@Peter-m7i1s]

There are so many aspects of this movie to love. One is how well it was directed and one of the many scenes that speaks to me is where Harold is standing with his back to the wall in the hospital.

[@amac6483]

June 2024, and still a great film.

[@chasing_dragons]

Thank you so much, and God bless you a million times for posting this. I'm turning 50 in less than two weeks, and this movie takes me back over four decades to when I first saw this. This ending scene here still breaks my heart. 🏁💫💯⭐️♥️

[@thefourthguy1506]

Happy birthday 🎉

[@poetryjones7946]

This is the only scene in any film that can consistently make me cry, even though I’ve watched this movie so many times I’ve lost count.

[@carsen161616]

No matter how many times I watch this movie it beings me to tears. It's a work of art.

[@tashib1998]

i cried like a baby when watching this. i see me in harold.

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

There's a bit of Harold in all of us. Back then it was simpler to sort it out. Nowadays there is so much information overload it's hard to know which end is up.

[@charles6952]

I'm sorry to see you feel that way.

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

@Zen Dissonance There have always been lies, it's just easier now to see them.

[@larrythomas4380]

Even though I've seen this movie and video many times, I still cry !!!

[@hendrickvedder4408]

Ich auch

[@telspei]

I love that people are still watching this movie; either for the first time or time and again. The truly sad thing is that Bud Cort gets nothing from the sales and rentals of this movie yet Paramount keeps cashing checks!

[@jlbaker2000]

Harold: "Maude, don't go, I love you." Maude: "Then love some more!"

[@lydiawilson5068]

[@shiva4u2]

J. B, I do

[@larryneville2163]

I saw this film when it was released in 1971 and dozens of times since. I may have been the first H&M fanatic. It's a beautiful, moving film, and it spoke to the youth I was fifty years ago and still speaks to me now. One aspect of the life/death issue that hasn't been mentioned here is that, for a fleeting moment in the movie, Maude shows a number on her forearm, as if from a concentration camp. One could argue that, if she was a survivor, that led to the special way she embraced life, and taught Harold to embrace it. And it may also begin to explain her suicide.

[@malcolmsvensson6585]

Maude more or less confirms that theory when she speaks to Harold about Dreyfus and the seagulls. Alfred Dreyfus was a French soldier imprisoned on false charges of treason, largely because he was Jewish, which the prosecution used to paint him in a negative light. While Dreyfus was disappointed to learn after his release that the glorious birds he'd seen in prison were "only" seagulls, Maude never lost the different perspective that her life gave her.

[@suenorwood-evans9724]

Magical and meaningful with actors and music that enhanced the film to perfection.

[@johng6565]

The greatest love story ever told.

[@heathersarsfield8565]

I agree all the way with u😍😧

[@davepassaro7133]

:'(

[@karacampbell8088]

Fourth Tenor Agreed

[@elderstatesman9932]

Hah, you need to get out more.

[@Strooin]

This movie was so ahead of its time. Or at least it would be if they were still making films this good. The ending always gets to me.

[@maureenrabbitt5350]

Cat Stevens soundtrack is the perfect musical score. It really made the movie. Its such a sad song and movie clip but it does have a beautiful ending. Its one of my favorite movies.

[@ashikana21]

So sweet that such a great woman chose to spend her last days on Earth with him. That to me is romantic...

[@faunwillow]

❤Trouble Oh, trouble set me free I have seen your face And it's too much, too much for me Trouble Oh, trouble can't you see You're eating my heart away And there's nothing much left of me I've drunk your wine You have made your world mine So won't you be fair So won't you be fair I don't want no more of you So won't you be kind to me Just let me go where I'll have to go there Trouble Oh, trouble move away I have seen your face And it's too much for me today Trouble Oh, trouble can't you see You have made me a wreck Now won't you leave me in my misery I've seen your eyes And I can see death's disguise Hangin' on me Hangin' on me I'm beat, I'm torn Shattered and tossed and worn Too shocking to see Too shocking to see Trouble Oh, trouble move from me I have paid my debt Now won't you leave me in my misery Trouble Oh, trouble please be kind I don't want no fight And I haven't got a lot of time Source: Musixmatch Songwriters: Cat Stevens ❤❤❤❤

[@petraschubert5299]

What a great film. Thanks for this jewel.💎

[@mishtaromaniello8295]

One of the saddest and one of the funniest films ever made.

[@lawrencepalacios5809]

I love how Cat Steven's Trouble intertwines with both the scenes from the car to the hospital and as the song heightens up, the more Harold's mind heightens as well given his situation.

[@hiflyer53qwc]

a true masterpiece... .I saw it back when you had to wait years to see a film again..a long time later I went to work for the summer near Minneapolis and learned that it had been playing in the same theater there for years.. I'd been haunted by the film. It was so great to know others felt the same .I'm happy that I can share my thoughts about the film with others who love it

[@christinecharles4586]

I rented it from my corner video store and pretended to lose it just so I could keep it 🤪 It cost me $89, but Blockbuster put them out of business before I could pay them. Looking back, I suck! I probably deprived some people from seeing it 😢😅😉

[@alanhunt7479]

It wasn't a sad end at all. It was the rebirth of a troubled soul!

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

He didn't have to kill that beautiful car though.

[@LanaDelGaydio]

@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 It was a hearse, he killed it because the part of him the used death to cope was finished. He exchanged death (the hearse) for life (the banjo)

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

@@LanaDelGaydio I know. It was a sad attempt at humor. Damn rich kids make us all poorer. The Kardashians are the Harolds of today, and their hearses are their monstrous asses.

[@nicedoggie1]

@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 He *didn't* kill the car. It was a joke on the audience, just like he pulled at the start of the film with his so-called suicide attempts. Note the final pan up from the beach. No...car. ;-)

[@stupidhandles]

Exactly, I don't find the end sad at all, bittersweet yes. But it's beautiful, Maude dies to set Harold free.

[@froschfreak1699]

A true masterpiece. Love it again and again and again...

[@williamschneider9928]

Saw this movie back when I lived in Los Angeles. I wasn’t as dark as Harold but I understood his heart. I loved Maude still do. Ruth Gorden you are so beautiful

[@Lrpesme48]

he just kills his old morbid self, symbolized by the wrecked hearse and dances off with his banjo, it's all life affirming and stuff, lol, hey, Scythe! :))

[@paultaylor537]

All time favorite.

[@randyd.8171]

I first saw this at the drive in, when I was twelve years old. It was the second feature. By the end of this movie, I didn't even remember what the first movie we had gone to see was. I had never seen this advertised on TV, and we didn't know it even existed. This has been my favorite movie ever sense.

[@ducksandansibles]

This movie is so beautiful. It changed my life when I saw it for the first time, and thinking about how much these characters actually affected me as a person makes me cry every single time I see the ending. And when they sing "If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out Together." Brilliance.

[@threewillowsfarm7779]

Saw this the day it came out. I was young then. It has always been my fav.

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

Heather is such a pretty name.

[@karacampbell8088]

Heather Smith I also watched as a young teen and still love it Many years later!!!

[@Displ4c]

How has your life been since then

[@Disinfotainment]

Harold and Maude II. Harold is now in his 80s. He meets Maude, an 18 year old suicidal Goth who keeps cutting herself. Harold saves her life.

[@wiicubeshipper]

Lmao

[@stupidhandles]

Only if you can get cat Stevens to come out of retirement for the sound track!

[@sdscreenwriter]

It's fascinating that the caption applied is "The sad end of a beautiful movie". To me there is no sadness here! Maude lived EXACTLY as she wanted, a perfect and empowered person and she CHOSE her moment to die. And I LOVE the idea that he actually did go over the edge with the car--never considered that before, but in the real sense, it makes no difference whether he died or not. Either way, this scene is the ending of one life for him and the beginning of another, more empowered one...

[@jlbaker2000]

sdscreenwriter Well said.

[@georgelogothetis549]

MAUDE "LIBERATES' HAROLD

[@robertphillips2769]

Absolutely one of the best films I've ever seen, repeatedly.

[@EllssBellss19]

One of the best movies my Dad introduced me as a kid back in the 90's. At first I didn't understand it but I loved it anyway, but as I grew older and watched the movie more and more I loved it more, I like to watch it down when I'm down. This is one of the greatest ever films and makes me think about my life and how there's so much more to it than being depressed.

[@twilightedwardbella9]

This is my favourite movie ever, I just love everything about it. and I keep trying to get my friends to watch it, but they won't cause they say it looks boring and old. D: I weep for the adolesence of today :P

[@stirgy4312]

She saved him. Love this movie.

[@acapps6341]

My mother took my sister and me to this film some years after its release at an art house theater in the late 70's. I'm still touched by this film today.

[@dieanne3]

This movie ...... what a gift

[@Guigley]

I think this film has some of the best character development in any comedy ever made.

[@08shortstop]

great film ... quirky, inspirational, memorable ... I think Cat Stevens contributed as much as Ruth Gordon and the kid.

[@GS-ts5fo]

I remember watching this movie and being inspired, the idea that love prevails above time is priceless. ❤

[@Alienmojo]

I don't believe it was a 'sad end' because it is really a happy ending. Harold driving his car over the edge was his ending of his previous 'sad' life and the new beginning he has now. That is why he walks away playing his banjo happily and dancing. He is no longer 'dying', but 'living' now. I so loved this movie and still do. :)

[@AnthonyWilliams-li5mz]

Sad this film never did well at first release back in 1971, the ending is so wonderful Harold choose life on top of that mountain. Really a good movie but then again sad it never did good when it first came out, moviegoers that this film was just to weird and it is kind of in a way.

[@KatieDowling78]

+Anthony Williams I never knew that. I think this fantastic - my father showed it to me when I was a teenager (I think he just liked it for the sex) and it has always been truly special to me. I'm honestly surprised that people had trouble coping with it, but we're all different I guess. I just love black comedy, and then to create one that has a spiritual meaning as well is just a gift to humanity. Best film ever.

[@elke4646]

Really???? God, my friends and I LOVED IT when we saw it in the theater. My brother and I have watched in over 20 times and all before 1974!

[@larasemerad2605]

I watch this movie when I have a rough day-I love the music and story.

[@noohoozfurra]

A stunning and moving film. Could watch it over and over. Perfection...

[@Cosmogirl014]

Makes so much sense, do what you gotta do - it's easy.... you don't need me. Beautiful lessons learned.

[@janette339]

This will always be my favorite scene from my favorite movie for as long as I live.

[@stuartstein8062]

The soundtrack and the scenery just added to this great movie

[@lydiawilson5068]

this beautiful movie will soon be watched by a friend young enough to be my daughter. i just purchased it. Harold & Maude is a "cult" classic well worth sustaining in the collective conscious!!! it's the best wisdom to pass down in old age, ha.

[@jamiegroves5155]

I'm 55 and I love this movie make me cry

[@musicmovie240]

I always tear up when I think about this movie and its ending. It's simply beautiful. No other words could describe other than simply beautiful. I wish more people saw this; it's a classic.

[@Joy.Larkspur]

Such a memorable film and soundtrack. ❤❤

[@ripperduck]

I was an undergrad in San Francisco back in 1986. There was a revival theatre in the Richmond district where I would go on the weekends. I was blown away when I fist saw this film, ond of the best I've ever seen. Still hauning so many years later....

[@coastdweller69]

reading the comments is like when i first saw this movie - everyone comments are what are in my head - amazing music - amazing story and timed perfectly with multiple generations

[@monsdali]

This movie broke my fucking heart but then after another watch I got the message

[@duncannelson2033]

Some films make me laugh, some cry … this does both

[@lisaezra8000]

i still come back to this, after all these years ...

[@ElJorro]

I think him destroying his car was his way of destroying his old persona. He was ready to move on with his life but first he had to purge his old one.

[@larrythomas4380]

This movie opened my eyes to what true " Love" is, people say it too often..

[@richsenecal]

One of my all time favorite moves, what an excellent piece of work! I just wish I had that Jag.

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

Don't we all. They don't make em like that anymore. Of course they were an absolute nightmare to keep running in tip-top shape. 12 cylinder engines are a bitch.

[@BoobyMcDoogle]

This scene always hits hard.

[@kevinmclaughlin2594]

It took a woman who was near death to make Harold embrace life. Such a beautiful movie.

[@sleepwalkerZZZ]

So... I just watched this on Pluto TV and they literally left the ending out. WTH?!!! I'm so glad I found it here. I cannot even imagine the amount of people watching this movie for the first time ( like me ) on that channel and just being left dumbfounded. On Pluto TV it just ends with him driving down a road. It doesn't even show where they obviously tell him that she's passed away. So messed up Pluto TV. So messed up.

[@robertshows5100]

He destroys the hearst. His old life is destroyed and he will take the gift she has given him and live

[@HeroLAT]

Just as amazing as the first time I watched it. Such a truly uniquely poignant and uncomfortably surreal film.

[@HeroLAT]

...said the snobiest fuckever as he tried to decry how awesome this movie is.

[@hendrickvedder4408]

Totale identifikation mit harold da sehe genau mich selber

[@truthnfreedomseeker]

Ahh, gets me everytime... Greatest movie ever made.

[@Presto409ify]

This is one of the most beautiful things ever,- the way it's directed, the song... If you ever want to encapsulate a period of your life, listen to this song in the background, it will conjure up the most pleasant memories...

[@melissalegazpi118]

This movie 🎥 was DEFINITELY ahead of its time! I love ❤️ it!

[@shannonquinn8687]

No, it was quintessential early 70's all the way. Back when life was about living and loving.

[@gab9669777]

Straight to favorites.

[@tjsal1026]

Maude states that living to 80 is just right. We could all learn something about quality of life not obsession with quantity

[@tarikmounih3559]

Pretty Iconic and the songs of Yusuf smooth it more than it is already hhh !

[@BeckeyGirard]

Love this movie and all the music.....

[@mnolanporter]

One of the greatest love stories ever told.

[@eily_b]

I am beyond happy that - to this day - they have not made a remake! I hope it stays this way. You can not reproduce the vibe of this movie.

[@MarkPollocktricks]

How Fabulous and powerful emotionally VITAL!

[@lekocafe]

I have loved this movie for decades. Sometimes need a refresher to remember what is important.

[@XboxliveAddict314]

He didn't kill himself. He was obsessed with death until Maude taught him there was more to life than he thought. After Maude died, he threw his life away and started living.

[@rodericklee8251]

Love is a disguise, but life is exactly what it needs to be

[@jeffschecter4543]

"Thats good Harold. Go love some more." thats the essence

[@madamKarima]

"If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out"

[@trashywilma]

Greatest movie of all time. I love how it's evident at the very end that Maude left Harold, her student, with her legacy.

[@mariinha12122009]

Love both songs! Love the film! ❤️

[@sacredaprilleescott9167]

A True Gem

[@misswendyjane4992]

She was a holocaust survivor and decided at a certain age she was going to exit the world on her terms after experiencing the horrors of the world. Respect.

[@TimSimms7]

Most of the strongest, most eminent people in my life have been women, and Maude lives with them.

[@hurtlocker22]

Loved this movie! In the end he wanted to live and liberate

[@richardconner15]

As the movie progresses you can see the color,life, flow back into Bud,s face as he falls under the spell of an old soul. Yes it was a makeup ploy,but like the iconic pictures of the MASTERS OF PERSUASION,behind the priest,THE POPE,the general,RICHARD NIXON,the psychologist,SIGMUND FREUD,it shows the subtle nuances of thought director HAL ASHBY put,s into his movies. The theme kind of reminds me of the movie GROUNDHOG DAY.

[@jamesfranklin2360]

In my view this is the finest ending of any film I've ever seen. Once we see the concentration camp number on Maude's arm, this becomes the one perfect conclusion for them both.

[@krisr.tondee7265]

An important point in this movie, that most people seem to miss. 🤔

[@jamesfranklin2360]

@@krisr.tondee7265 Thanks for your response. I never saw anyone else comment on that element of the film, which to me seems the pivotal and defining fact which makes sense of Maude's character.

[@leldepoklikajeva1377]

Someone dies, someone borns

[@DanaPattison]

og god, I just remembered how very deeply I loved this movie.

[@zeeshansarwar1828]

There’s nothing else to do but to embrace life 😀

[@krisr.tondee7265]

Wise enduring words. 😊🕊

[@mavericksone]

i love this movie so much, thanks

[@luzco]

Eu também gostei bastante. E que músicas lindas!!!!!

[@Doggeslife]

I caught this one by accident as a kid in 1972 when it played with a big-hit movie at an indoor theater double feature. A hidden gem. The way he kept surviving what appeared to be suicide attempts always stuck with me all these decades.