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Created Dec 22, 2007 06:09PM PST • Edited May 27, 2010 10:08PM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Perfect 5.0

   It’s 1962. Hot rodders cruise down the streets looking for a race, gangs are up to no good kind of fun, and everyone else is heading to the hop! American Graffiti is the movie that makes me wish that I was alive during the 50s and 60s. Not just focusing on one character, we follow several on their many whacky and crazy adventures that take place on a night that will always be remembered. Grab a cherry Coke, hop in your street rod, and paint the town red with American Graffiti!

4. Acting

   Perfect 5.0

   With a cast of characters that are never forgotten, American Graffiti accelerates with great acting and how could it not with a terrific cast consisting of Richard Dreyfus, Harrison Ford, Ron Howard, and the infamous Wolfman Jack?

5. Male Stars Perfect 5.0

6. Female Stars Perfect 5.0

7. Female Costars Perfect 5.0

8. Male Costars Perfect 5.0

10. Film

    Perfect 5.0

    Everytime I watch this movie, I forget that it was made in 1973. That’s how perfect this movie is. I’ve never been tricked by any movie into believing that it was made during the time the movie takes place. Terrific soundtrack, edited perfectly, this movie is firing on all cylinders.

11. Direction Perfect 5.0

12. Play Perfect 5.0

13. Music Perfect 5.0

14. Visuals Perfect 5.0
15. Content

16. Edge

    Tame 1.0

    It was 1962, a better time in America. American Graffiti is a movie that older adults can share with future generations and show us younger people how the world was without cell phones, the internet (seems ironic doesn’t it?), ipods, or digital cable television. If you ask me, I’d rather have it the old way.

17. Sex Innocent 1.0

18. Violence Gentle 1.0

19. Rudeness Polite 1.0

21. Reality

    Natural 1.0

    With the say-so of many older folks I know that have seen this movie, “That’s how it was back then.”

22. Circumstantial Natural 1.0

23. Biological Natural 1.0

24. Physical Natural 1.0