joy@mit-vax.UUCP (Joy Hoppe) (06/19/84)
Walt Tucker: Sorry Walt, you are mistaken about the Mackenzie Phillips trivia. "American Graffiti" is a movie about a kid's last night in his home town before he leaves for college (and the subsequent weird happenings). It is set in late fifties/early sixties (not sure which). Stars of the picture included Suzanne Somers -- the elusive blond in the white Thunderbird.... remember now? It was about cruisin' and all that good stuff that the hero, played by Richard Dreyfus, was already getting nostalgic about. trivia freaks unite... joy
waltt@mako.UUCP (Walt Tucker) (06/21/84)
>Sorry Walt, you are mistaken about the Mackenzie Phillips trivia. >"American Graffiti" is a movie about a kid's last night in his >home town before he leaves for college (and the subsequent >weird happenings). It is set in late fifties/early sixties (not >sure which). trivia freaks unite... joy All the above is true about the first movie. However, the question was about the sequel to American Graffiti called *MORE American Graffiti*. The sequel was released in 1979. The first movie (AG) dealt with the subject as expressed above. The year is 1962, by the way. The second movie (MAG) follows the characters of the first movie into the mid-to-late 60's. In the second movie, there are actually four separate stories going on. We are shown a segment from one story, then the film goes to the next story, and so forth. Each story takes place in one evening, as in the first movie -- on New Years Eve 1964 (John Milner at the race track), 1964 (Terry the toad in Viet Nam), 1966 (Debbie in San Franciso), and 1967 (Ron Howard and Cindy Williams in Berkley). In the 1966 story, MacKenzie Phillips and Harrison Ford make brief appearances. I've seen "American Graffiti" in the theatre three times and a number of times on television. I saw "More American Graffiti" when it was released and on the subsequent television showing in 1982. -- Walt Tucker Tektronix, Inc.