The best Hal Ashby’s movies on YouTube

Hal Ashby

Hal Ashby

02/09/1929- 27/12/1988
We present our ranking of the best Hal Ashby’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Hal Ashby.
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Being There

Being There
7.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 19/12/1979
  • Character: Man at File Cabinet at the Washington Post (uncredited)
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.

The Last Detail

The Last Detail
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 11/12/1973
  • Character: Bearded Man at Bar (uncredited)
Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way.

Harold and Maude

Harold and Maude
7.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 20/12/1971
  • Character: Bearded Man Watching Model Train (uncredited)
The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude who also lives in her own world yet one in which she is having the time of her life. When the two opposites meet they realize that their differences don’t matter and they become best friends and love each other.

Hal

Hal
7.2/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 28/03/2019
  • Character: Himself (archive footage)
Hal Ashby's obsessive genius led to an unprecedented string of Oscar®-winning classics, including Harold and Maude, Shampoo and Being There. But as contemporaries Coppola, Scorsese and Spielberg rose to blockbuster stardom in the 1980s, Ashby's uncompromising nature played out as a cautionary tale of art versus commerce.

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