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Overview

User Rating:
4.9/10   1,366 votes
Director:
Bill L. Norton
Writers:
George Lucas (characters) and
Gloria Katz (characters) ...
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Release Date:
3 August 1979 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama | War more
Tagline:
More laughs. More music.
Plot:
College graduates deal with Vietnam and other issues of the late '60s. | add synopsis
User Comments:
Unwanted, unloved but not without its good points more

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)

Candy Clark ... Debbie Dunham
Bo Hopkins ... Little Joe

Ron Howard ... Steve Bolander
Paul Le Mat ... John Milner
Mackenzie Phillips ... Carol / Rainbow

Charles Martin Smith ... Terry 'The Toad' Fields
Cindy Williams ... Laurie Bolander
Anna Bjorn ... Eva
Richard Bradford ... Major Creech
John Brent ... Ralph
Country Joe McDonald ... Country Joe & The Fish
Barry Melton ... Country Joe & The Fish (as Barry 'the Fish' Melton)
Robert Hogins ... Country Joe & The Fish
Robert Flurie ... Country Joe & The Fish
Peter Albin ... Country Joe & The Fish
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Purple Haze
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Runtime:
110 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Icelandic
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
Canada:A (Nova Scotia) | Canada:AA (Ontario) (original rating) | Canada:PG (Ontario) (re-rating) (1992) | Canada:PG (Manitoba) | Australia:M | Canada:G (Quebec) | Finland:K-12 | UK:12 (video rating) | UK:AA (original rating) | USA:PG
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Company:
Lucasfilm more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
This sequel cost eight times as much as the original American Graffiti (1973), but was brought in within it's $6 million budget and forty five day schedule. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: Toad is obviously a low-ranking enlisted man who takes orders from the First Sergeant and is placed on details for enlisted men, but wears the rank insignia of a warrant officer, a higher rank than a First Sergeant. more
Quotes:
Felix: Do you know I used to know a surfer named Lance? His name was No Pants Lance. more
Movie Connections:
References "MisteRogers' Neighborhood" (1968) more
Soundtrack:
Fingertips Part II more

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5 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
Unwanted, unloved but not without its good points, 22 July 2007
6/10
Author: TrevorAclea from London, England

Like Texasville, The Two Jakes and, before long, Evan Almighty, More American Graffiti is one of those sequels to that most people not only didn't want but don't know even exists: certainly George Lucas seems happy to pretend it doesn't (it's conspicuous by its complete absence in the otherwise comprehensive 78-minute documentary on the DVD for the original film), a fate not even Howard the Duck or The Radioland Murders share among his oeuvre. No Richard Dreyfuss, and Ron Howard is little more than a cameo but the rest of the original cast are all present and correct – even an unbilled Harrison Ford turns up as a traffic cop – while Scott Glenn, Delroy Lindo and Rosanna Arquette provide the "they were around that long?" factor in the supporting cast. Yet the result is even more of a mixed bag than the original, with writer-director Bill L. Norton separating his main characters over four different New Year's Eves with wildly varying results: Paul Le Mat has now graduated to drag racing, perhaps the least cinematic sport ever invented, Cindy Williams and Ron Howard get mixed up in student riots, Candy Clark's hippie chick finally gets the message about her loser guitarist boyfriend while, in by far the best part of the film, Charles Martin Smith's Terry the Toad is doing everything he possibly can to get out of Vietnam. Shot in multiple aspect ratios from 1.33:1 to 2.35:1 and with some imaginative and often amusing split-screen work, the execution is often better than the material and it's more entertaining than you might expect, but there's little of the resonance of the original.

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Quite possibly the worst sequel ever ADFman
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