A Hard Day's Night

Movie

1964

1h 28m

English

Music, Comedy

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7.7

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A Hard Day's Night

Movie

1964

1h 28m

English

Music, Comedy

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Watch on HBO (Via Hulu)

Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul's troublemaking grandfather and Ringo's arrest.

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Cast

John

Paul

George

Ringo

Grandfather

Norm

Shake

T.V. Director

Millie

Police Inspector

Man on Train

Hotel Waiter

T.V. Floor Manager

T.V. Choreographer

Secretary

Young Boy

Lead Makeup Woman (uncredited)

Roger Avon

Policeman (uncredited)

Bruce Beeby

Casino Man (uncredited)

Isla Blair

Actress (uncredited)

John Bluthal

Car Thief (uncredited)

Pattie Boyd

Jean (uncredited)

Andre Charisse

Champagne Waiter at Casino (uncredi...

Phil Collins

Seated Fan with Necktie (uncredited...

Sheila Fearn

Makeup Lady (uncredited)

Directed By: Richard Lester

Written By: Alun Owen (Screenplay)

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tjmyers8997 says...

9 years ago

This film is such a delight.

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JakeyWest says...

3 years ago

If you’ve encountered the Beatles in interviews, at different stages of their career, you’ll know very well how cheeky, clever and witty they were. It’s in this classic comedy that they are no different. They seem to be improvising a simple script throughout the entire film. But much to our entertainment however, as we are treated to the full album set list of a hard days night, and the four Beatles whipping up a frenzy wherever they appear. This makes for a good snapshot of Beatlemania, the one of a kind phenomenon we haven’t seen again.

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theinfamousj says...

4 years ago

Clearly, I'm not the intended audience of this film. That said, Granddad (Wilfrid Brambell) was my favorite character in the entire movie. Watch this for him if for nothing else. I watched this movie with my movie crew. It didn't connect with them either. One of the crew suggested that the problem might have been that we were sober during our watching session. None of us liked the movie enough to test that theory with a rewatch.

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Rissy Larsson says...

2 years ago

Honestly, the idea and the proposal is very interesting, but the script is so disconnected from reality and the direction is so boring that I need to take a break to watch 5 minutes of this movie, it's a torture of goodness.

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