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309 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, TMDB reviews) · newest Nov 3, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works
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American Graffiti is a 1973 comedy drama film, directed by George Lucas, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Paul Le Mat and Charles Martin Smith.
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60 of 309 · most liked firstSeated at La Paloma in Encinitas for American Graffiti. My first time at this theater. Cash only. Old as shit. Hell yes, let’s do this.
positive · AI labelView post →Remembering the amazing Cindy Williams, beloved TV & film actress, on her 79th birthday. Famous for her roles in LAVERNE & SHIRLEY, AMERICAN GRAFFITI, HAPPY DAYS, THE CONVERSATION, STRIP MALL, TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT, 8 SIMPLE RULES, and much more. She was #BOTD on 8/22/1947.
neutral · AI labelView post →It tells you how fast American culture changed that when American Graffiti was filmed, it was about a summer only 11 years earlier. Imagine a movie today being made about 2015. Also, I just noticed this little Easter egg from George Lucas
neutral · AI labelView post →Farewell to Academy Award-winning film editor Marcia Lucas (1945-2026). She won an Oscar for STAR WARS, was nominated for AMERICAN GRAFFITI, and shared a BAFTA nom for TAXI DRIVER. She also edited ALICE DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE and RETURN OF THE JEDI in a brief but game-changing career. #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →people George Lucas purged from his life for telling him “no” includes: * Gary Kurtz - former best friend who added aspects buddhism to Star Wars (the force) * Irvin Kershner - Film teacher, director of TESB. * Marcia Lucas - George’s exwife. film editor Star Wars, American Graffiti, etc
neutral · AI labelView post →Someone recently uploaded the complete George Lucas’ Super Live Adventure. And what, you ask, is that? It was a short-lived arena show that combined Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Willow, American Graffiti, and everyone’s favorite Lucas film: Tucker: The Man and His Dreams. It’s as nuts as it sounds.
neutral · AI labelView post →Marcia Lucas played a pivotal role as editor on her then husband George Lucas’ film AMERICAN GRAFFITI. She was a game-changing pioneer. The film was so successful it led to her being the editor on Martin Scorsese’s ALICE DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE. #RIPMarciaLucas
neutral · AI labelView post →What's one of your favorite songs released in the 1950s or 60s? 🎶 With the release of the movie American Graffiti on August 11, 1973, came the impressive 41 track soundtrack from the movie that included the songs "Runaway" by Del Shannon, "Little Darlin" by The Diamonds and "Aint That A Shame" by 👇
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m an AMERICAN GRAFFITI truther. It’s too good of a movie for George Lucas to have directed it. It’s a Coppola movie and he just slapped George’s name on it.
positive · AI labelView post →AMERICAN GRAFFITI was released XX years ago today. One of the most successful budget-to-box office films ever made, and the movie that led to George Lucas making Star Wars, the story of how it came to be will have you wishing you were Seventeen Forever… 1/47
neutral · AI labelView post →Finished off my week of studying Star Wars for the Comfort Blanket podcast by rewatching American Graffiti. I think it's impossible to understand what that film looked like in a world *without* Happy Days and Back To The Future and Levis ads. But, my god, what it kicked off.
positive · AI labelView post →Movie soundtracks* ranked 10. American Graffiti 9. Saturday Night Fever 8. Superfly 7. Trainspotting 6. A Hard Day's Night 5. Purple Rain 4. Pulp Fiction 3. O Brother Where Art Thou 2. Pretty in Pink 1. Grosse Pointe Blank *No original scores/musicals
neutral · AI labelView post →Anyway this isn't even that crazy, AMERICAN GRAFFITI, the nostalgic movie the inspired DAZED AND CONFUSED, was only set 11 years before it was released, which would be us pining for the simple, bygone days of 2014
neutral · AI labelView post →This is a fair assessment and question IMO that doesn't deserve the downvotes. I couldn't tell you what his international appeal might be, but to me he carries on a sort of Clint Eastwood-type lineage. The jaded, world-weary, cynical lead with anti-hero properties, one might say. Bonus pts for being a good-looking guy in his younger days with something of a riveting glare. **EDIT**: actually, I'm selling him short. His ability to go from weary / bored to intense & even ferocious surely…
neutral · AI labelView post →August 2, 1973 "American Graffiti," directed by George Lucas and starring Richard Dreyfuss and Ron Howard, premieres at the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland
neutral · AI labelView post →I don't like science fiction because why send a person into space when you can send computers that don't die, but the original Star Wars is like watching American Graffiti on the best drugs of all time. Every revision made that worse. What an awful headline. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
positive · AI labelView post →What's a favorite song released in the 1950s or 60s? 🎶 With the release of the movie American Graffiti on August 11, 1973, came the impressive 41 track soundtrack from the movie that included the songs "Runaway" by Del Shannon, "Little Darlin" by The Diamonds and "Aint That A Shame" by Fats Domino 👇
neutral · AI labelView post →It's wild to see this dude was basically an art film snob, knocking out cinema verite shorts, making THX 1138, American Graffiti, Star Wars. And then he's just defined by that blockbuster and gets stuck. Granted, he's on the record as saying that directing burned him out, but still.
neutral · AI labelView post →He spent two movies showing everyone, proving he was right, and then.... Well, and then there wasn't anything else to prove. Why not put "ewoks" in your movie? Who gives a shit? You already made Star Wars and American Graffiti. What else is there to do?
neutral · AI labelView post →American Graffiti (Film: 1973 / DVD: 1998) 🔇
neutral · AI labelView post →August 2, 1973: "American Graffiti", directed by George Lucas and starring Richard Dreyfuss and Ron Howard premieres at the Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland.
neutral · AI labelView post →Released #OTD in 1971 #filmsky George Lucas has worked the title of this film, or parts of it, in some of his other films. In American Graffiti, the license plate of one car is "THX 138". In Star Wars a reference is made to "prison cell 1138". The cinema sound certification company is "THX"
neutral · AI labelView post →Cindy Williams & Ron Howard in the movie “American Graffiti” (1973)
neutral · AI labelView post →My ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review of AMERICAN GRAFFITI boxd.it/feZK7l Time capsule from when all things seemed possible. Last gasp of innocence results in a night of silly mischief, petty squabbles, & general horniness with teens on precipice of adulthood. Stacked cast of pre-fame stars is added bonus. #filmsky 📽
positive · AI labelView post →I just watched American Graffiti, a 1973 movie that was made as a nostalgic look back at a different era, recreating that time period’s totally distinct music, fashions, hair, and attitudes. It takes place in 1962. Eleven years earlier. It’s like if a movie today took place in 2012.
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973). Director: George Lucas. Richard Dreyfuss, Ronny Howard. Why does everyone look so young? Back to Mel's Diner, listening to Wolfman Jack. Rewatch. #filmsky 📽
positive · AI labelView post →There is essentially no traditional musical score in American Graffiti. Lucas instead built the movie around existing rock & roll records—something much less common in 1973 than it is today. #TCMParty #AmericanGraffiti ^JW
neutral · AI labelView post →American Graffiti Bridge a movie directed by George Lucas and Prince Ron Howard and Harrison Ford team up with Morris Day and the Time to try and take over a nightclub Many people believe the "Thieves in the Temple" dance sequence inspired the Stormtrooper breakdance in Star Wars
neutral · AI labelView post →Last night, for the first time in my 44 years, I watched American Graffiti (a.k.a. the film that allowed Star Wars to be made). It was the recent passing of Marcia Lucas that prompted me to finally take the plunge. I am so glad that I did. I truly enjoyed it.
positive · AI labelView post →Coming up at 5:45pE: AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973) Here's every song in the order it appears in the film! #TCMParty ^JW
neutral · AI labelView post →I met Mackenzie Phillips at the Albuquerque Comic Con! I grew up watching her on the TV show One Day at a Time. She played the character Julie from 1975-1984. She was also in the movie American Graffiti. She congratulated me on my success and told me some stories from her life.
neutral · AI labelView post →@hunkykubrick.bsky.social Thanks for posting the soundtrack to this film and reminding me I've been meaning to watch this for forever! #NowWatching for the first time: 🎥 American Graffiti (1973) 🎬 Directed By: George Lucas #Filmsky #Moviesky
positive · AI labelView post →Settling in now to watch this evenings entertainment 🍿 📽 American Graffiti the 1973 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by George Lucas. 🎥 🎬 #nowwatching #MovieSky #movienight #filmsky #comedyfilm 🎭 #Saturdaymovie
neutral · AI labelView post →Two ways George Lucas changed movie credits: He got kicked out of the Director’s guild by getting the credits moved to the end, and with American Graffiti the budget was so low that he offered the crew a screen credit in lieu of payment which they didn’t used to do, only Dept heads were credited
neutral · AI labelView post →#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 11 - a song that uses parallel major & minor Runaway - Del Shannon I don't believe George Lucas ever made a finer film than American Graffiti, end of discussion, so...⬇️ "Where were you in '62?" 🍔💋💃🎶🏎️🔥 m.youtube.com/watch?v=GcBg...
positive · AI labelView post →#JulyYouAreASong 🎙️ #MusicChallenge 🎶 Day 1️⃣1️⃣: A song from a drive-in movie 🗣 Del Shannon - American Graffiti 🔊 Runaway
neutral · AI labelView post →The Equivalent movie of American Graffiti today would be setting a film in 2013. George Lucas made American Graffiti in 1973 as a 1962 period piece
neutral · AI labelView post →@jillysnaps.bsky.social posts a wonderful crossover for the #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms and #FebruARTy #eyes with an excellent photograph for the movie ‘American Graffiti’. So smart - and talented! #EastCoastKin
neutral · AI labelView post →AMERICAN GRAFFITI is really one of the best film titles ever and perfect in that it doesn't really mean anything specific, but is evocative and perfectly fits the vibe of the movie https://bsky.app/profile/sprawlhater.bsky.social/post/3k5jfer5sqb26
positive · AI labelView post →NYE movie: American Graffiti boxd.it/clGvbN
neutral · AI labelView post →Pretty sure I’m the youngest person here for American Graffiti. TBH it’s called the senior silver screen series. Well, a good movie is a good movie. Plus $2 admission, soda, and popcorn? Can’t beat that. Good turnout this morning. #TCMParty
positive · AI labelView post →George Lucas' BD: W/D of THX-1138 & American Graffiti, & then...GL: "I realized after THX that people don't care"; so renounced making "angry, socially relevant film[s]" Canby: THX made “in spite of philistine indifference & corporate interference” We're w/Coppola: www.indiewire.com/features/gen...
neutral · AI labelView post →George Lucas' first film was THX-1138 in 1971. It was a box office bomb but did pique studios' interests. UA offered Lucas a two-film deal. The first was American Graffiti. The second was what Lucas called “a space opera that’s a bit like a western, a bit like James Bond.” 2/37
neutral · AI labelView post →I'd also be curious to see the universe where the film 20th Century Fox backed as their surefire hit that spring, The Other Side of Midnight, was one. (Fun Fact. So sure of the film's success, Fox had it so theaters had to take this Flash Gordon-esque junker the American Graffiti kid made as well.)
neutral · AI labelView post →This 9/12/79 New York Times ad for MORE AMERICAN GRAFFITI indicates Universal was afraid that people thought "More" just meant the first movie again, as they apparently retitled it on the fly "After American Graffiti"(!)
neutral · AI labelView post →not sure what this has to do with the director of American Graffiti but it is a great movie that we don’t talk about nearly as much as we should
positive · AI labelView post →#OctoberMovieChallenge Someone driving an old car in a film Nod to the first day of Spooktober with the skull swinging from the rear view mirror American Graffiti #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →Also worth remembering, Lucas did it twice. In 1973, he directed American Graffiti and kicked off a 50s nostalgia in the public consciousness. Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley , Grease. It existed before, but that movie blew it up. He may not write dialog, but the zeitgeist is his jam.
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally… on the back of the movie, 20th Century Fox (who declined American Graffiti) told Lucas if had any more good ideas, they’d give him 2-picture deal. He said he did; he’d been kicking round an idea for a film he described as “a western in space”... 47/47
neutral · AI labelView post →A lot of star wars discourse just skips over the part where the first movie, titled "Star Wars", was basically "Ok sure why not, you did good with American Graffiti" and most of the deeper meaning gets retconned onto it because it wasn't actually designed as a 9-part series that, uh, starts with #4
neutral · AI labelView post →Long day, my daughter got married! Beautiful stuff. Time to relax though. Time for a movie. #12 of 100 #FamousMovies I haven't seen yet American Graffiti, 1973 Starring Richard Dreyfuss and Ron Howard
neutral · AI labelView post →#MusicChallenge #GenreRoulette #RockNRollWednesday Day 26 From American Graffiti, the first 'grown-up' movie i can remember watching. The Diamonds - Little Darlin'
neutral · AI labelView post →On this date in 1973, "American Graffiti," directed by George Lucas and starring Richard Dreyfuss and Ron Howard, premieres at the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland.
neutral · AI labelView post →smashing pumpkins? pfff. if they made American Graffiti today it’d be set in 2015. imagine it. instead of them all going to Vietnam, the text at end of the movie tells you Ron Howard canvassed for Hillary and Dreyfuss went MAGA. Uptown Funk and See You Again on the radio. Zane Lowe is Wolfman Jack.
neutral · AI labelView post →#JulyYouAreASong #MusicChallenge 9: A song from a drive-in movie Sixteen Candles - The Crests I can imagine watching American Graffiti at a drive-in movie, and this song is playing in the Mel’s Drive-in scene, so… youtu.be/NlXlZb18F20?...
neutral · AI labelView post →These were alternative film title suggestions for 'American Graffiti' as the studio didn't like the name of the film. Studio execs are wrong about most things. But they were right that "American Graffiti" absolutely should have been called "1962 Was Some Year." 🤪
neutral · AI labelView post →Boomers love that movie American Graffiti. That’s illegal now.
negative · AI labelView post →Read an interesting little piece of trivia the other day. One of the most profitable movies ever made when you consider how much was spent on production vs. box office receipts is American Graffiti. Lucas/Universal spent a bit less than 800K to make the film. It ended up making around 115 million.
neutral · AI labelView post →American Graffiti was released in 1973, with a nostalgic look at 1962. If a similar film came out today, it would take place in 2014. Strange how nothing progresses anymore. 1962 was a different world from 1973. 2014 is indistinguishable from 2025. We are a stagnant pond of a society.
neutral · AI labelView post →July 10th A Song From A Drive-In Movie #JulyYouAreASong #MusicChallenge From American Graffiti, Bill Haley & The Comets "We're Gonna (Rock Around The Clock)" open.spotify.com/track/1uRKT2...
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