Hal Ashby
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Ashby was a Hollywood editor who became one of the gentlest directors of the 1970s, fond of oddballs and misfits. In Harold and Maude, a young man obsessed with death befriends a woman of nearly eighty. The Last Detail has two Navy men escorting a young offender to prison, who decide to show him a good time on the way. Being There puts Chance, a gardener who has never left his employer's house, out on the street in Washington.
Signature
- Misfits treated with affection.
- Counterculture comedy and melancholy.
- Cat Stevens songs in Harold and Maude.
- Loose, improvised-feeling performances.
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