More American Graffiti (1979) on Netflix
Racer John Milner falls for Eva, who comes from Iceland and speaks no English. Friends visit the strip that New Year's Eve, among them pregnant Laurie and Terry, bound for Vietnam.
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Plot summary
The friends from American Graffiti gather on New Year's Eve 1964, the first of four consecutive New Year's Eves in the story. John Milner races at the drag strip, and Eva, a young woman from Iceland, catches his attention. She speaks no English, and he works at finding a way to talk with her. Steve Bolander, Laurie Henderson, Terry Fields and Debbie Dunham come by the strip that night. Laurie is pregnant, and Terry, in uniform, ships out to Vietnam the same evening. John also has a brief reunion with Carol "Rainbow" Morrison. The four years are woven together, each with a visual style of its own.
Cast
- John Lansingas Lance
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- Ken Placeas Beckwith
- Robert Hoginsas Country Joe and the Fish
- Robert Flurieas Country Joe and the Fish
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about More American Graffiti (1979)
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- More American Graffiti turned out to be the last live-action theatrical film in which Ron Howard would play a credited, named character, even though most of the original cast, including Candy Clark, Paul Le Mat, Cindy Williams and Harrison Ford, returned for it.
- Each of the film's four New Year's Eve storylines was shot in its own distinct visual style, such as the 1966 segment echoing Woodstock's simultaneous split-screen angles, and the 1965 Vietnam segment shot hand-held on grainy Super 16mm film to resemble real war-reporter footage.
- A completely unrelated album also called More American Graffiti had already come out in 1975, four years before this film, as an official sequel compilation to the original American Graffiti soundtrack, approved for release by George Lucas even though only one of its songs had actually featured in the first movie.
