This is one of my favorite movies.  It seems to have diappeared into obscurity since it’s release in 1971.  The plot in itself, while obscure, is brilliant.  Essentially it follows an 18 year old boy who doesn’t really fit in (this is extrapolated by him not liking girls his own age and having no peer friends) and has an odd fascination with the macbre.  His hobbies include faking his death for the pleasure (sarcasm!) of his mother and attending funerals.  This is humourously and delightfully juxaposed with the soundtrack, which is composed solely of Cat Stevens songs. 

He meets a truely free-spirted woman at a funeral, 79 year old Maude.  In my opinion their ages aren’t relevant except for measuring their experience with life.  Maude is fascinating and worldly, whereas Harold is somewhat lost.  The movie follows him and how his life changes the more time he spends with Maude.  He refuses many women that his mother tries to set him up with eventually ending with him telling his mother that he wishes to marry Maude…followed by a humourous trip to his psychologist (whom he’s been seeing periodically throughout the movie at the request of his mother). 

That’s all I can really say without spoiling it, but it is funny, deep, interesting, and highly entertaining.  Rarely is a movie so well made that I’m at a loss for words…but I am.