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Hard Day's Night, A (re-release)
Miramax Films

Hard Day's Night, A (re-release) reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 95 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
9.0 out of 10
based on 22 reviews
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MPAA RATING: Not rated

Starring John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr

A re-release of the 1964 film which chronicles a day in the life of the Beatles, featuring many of their famous songs.


GENRE(S): Musical  
WRITTEN BY: Alun Owen  
DIRECTED BY: Richard Lester  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: September 24, 2002 
Video: March 20, 2001 
Theatrical: December 1, 2000 
RUNNING TIME: 85 minutes, BW 
ORIGIN: UK 

What The Critics Said

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100
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Wit, joy, imagination, and sensational mid-'60s music.
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100
Film.com Robert Horton
Conveys not just a joy in music and The Beatles, but a joy in cinema.
100
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
No movie has had a greater impact on the way people looked. The music of course is immortal.
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100
Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
One of the most excitingly contemporary musicals ever made.
100
Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
It enables us to recapture exactly the delightful sensations felt all those years ago when we and the world were young and exciting together.
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100
Washington Post Desson Thomson
It doesn't matter how many times you see these images. They're always exciting.
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100
New York Daily News Jack Mathews
As joyously energetic now as the day it arrived.
100
Slate David Edelstein
Watching the opening of A Hard Day's Night is like getting a direct injection of happiness.
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100
Miami Herald Howard Cohen
Lester managed to come up with a movie that not only holds together as a film but one that has proven timeless and rewards repeat viewings.
100
Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
It's 85 minutes of screen time that represents one crystallized moment not in the Beatles' career per se but in the parallel career they forged inside all of us, the one that will last beyond any breakup, retirement or death.
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100
Boston Globe Jay Carr
In a crisply restored print, it's as joyous as ever. We loved them - yeah, yeah, yeah. Now we can love them all over again.
100
New York Post Lou Lumenick
Bursting with energy and originality even after 36 years, A Hard Day's Night is easily the best show in town.
100
Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
It's inspired fun.
100
Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
A non-stop cinematic funhouse impossible to resist.
100
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
They're like gods at play, paragons of pure delight, as they mock and feign their way through a universe of mere mortals. To see the movie again is to realize that they were never entirely of this earth and that they never will be.
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90
TV Guide Frank Lovece
Refreshing, innovative and immensely funny.
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90
Washington Post David Segal
Still a marvel of verve and bone-dry wit, the movie has been treated kindly by time.
88
Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
The songs are pure joy, for them and for us.
80
Rolling Stone Peter Travers
You wanna feel all right? This is the holiday movie that will do it.
70
Village Voice J. Hoberman
No previous rocksploitation film had ever done so splendid a job of selling its performers.
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70
Variety Dennis Harvey
A wacky, offbeat piece of filming, charged with vitality, and inventiveness by director Dick Lester.
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70
Chicago Reader Don Druker
Lester serves up a helping of what, on this side of the pond, we came to think of as kicky, mod British filmmaking
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 22 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Linc Link gave it a10:
WOW!! Hilarious, amazing music...just one of my favorite films of all-time. I actually prefer "Help"(I like both the movie & music better), but comparing the two very different films is certainly an "apples and oranges" sort of exercise. If you haven't seen this, do yourself a favor and enjoy!!! Blessings!!!

Brian K. gave it a10:
Brilliant. Fun. Clever. Witty. Historical. Hysterical. This is the Beatles masterpiece movie. I'm not sure if I enjoyed Lester's humor as much as the quick wit of Lennon, Harrison, Ringo and McCartney. Lennon running out of the train station is one of my favorite scenes (I've been there as a tourist). Harrison's scene with his future ex-wife Patti Boyd (and then stolen from Clapton only to become his future ex-wife) is precious. Ringo's hangover scene and Paul's quick wit are some of my favorite moments in this film. This is a much better film than Yellow Submarine. This shows us how the Beatles making fun of their new found fame are losing their right to privacy and any sense of a normal life they may have had had they not been such a great pop band.

Dan C. gave it a 9:
I loved it, but I loved Yellow Submarine more.

Pat C. gave it a 7:
A stupid movie if not made by four guys everybody loved, and if you take out the music. No critic gave it less than a 7 for fear of being hunted down and attacked. I won't either.

Yoon Min C. gave it an 8:
It did for pop culture what Eisenstein's Potemkin did for the communist revolution. A viscerally refreshing and explosive celebration of Beatlemania, it established much of the stylistic conventions that came to define youth culture in movies and music; and what's more central to pop culture than youth culture? This impact was for good and bad; while liberating the conventions of filmmaking much as Beatles music did for rock and creating a whole new language in the manner of the French New Wave, it also unleashed what might be called the TV Commercial(and later MTV)aesthetic onto the wider culture which no doubt has contributed to the malaise known as the attention deficit disorder. Also, as Lennon stated, the writing was subpar; the Beatles were far wittier and more outrageous on their own. Worse, there is something resembling a plot with throwaway minor characters though Paul's fictional grandfather does kinda grow on us. Still, an undeniable classic of sorts and perhaps the best non-concert Rock movie.

Jack gave it a 10:
I'm no fan of the Beatles but I loved it! Not just for fans -- it's a great pop comedy!

Anna L. gave it a 10:
I LOVE this movie!! one of my all-time favorites! guaranteed to make you smile!

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