HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: Harold and Maude

When:Monday, July 20, 2009
Time:8:00 p.m.
Where:Bryant Park Lawn
42nd Street and 6th Avenue
Manhattan
Cost:Free

The nation’s premier outdoor film festival brings classic films to the big screen for the 17th consecutive year. Thousands of movie fans flock to the park for picnics and an evening of film’s biggest stars in Bryant Park. The lawn opens at 5 p.m. and the films start at sunset.

This week’s presentation is “Harold and Maude.” Teenager Bud Cort and sexagenarian Ruth Gordon both like to go to funerals of people they don’t know, and meet to embark on one of cinema’s great relationships. Audacious and heartbreaking, Hal Ashby’s superb black comedy also features a perfect soundtrack by Cat Stevens.

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