American Graffiti on Netflix

It created the whole template for D&C.

Great sound design. Music from passing cars…

Milner is also the pre-Wooderson.

Harrison Ford, Cindy Williams, Ron Howard, just to name a few!

Season one of Happy Days had such a similar feel to American Graffiti. Then, it just became a normal sitcom that kind of forgot about the 50s as a major character and just happened to be set in the past.

And Ritchie and Joanie's older brother, Chuck, disappeared completely.

And that was the end of Happy Days. Was that before or after Mork showed up? that show got so weird. I watched it as a kid in reruns and loved it, but it became pretty surreal in the latter seasons.

It is an excellent movie. Worth a watch. Like you said the music is incredible.

“Rock and roll's been going downhill ever since Buddy Holly died.”

-John Milner

Let me have a Three Musketeers, and a ball point pen, and one of those combs there, a pint of Old Harper, a couple of flash light batteries and some beef jerky.

This movie was huge when I was in junior high. It kind of launched the idea of 50's dances (the irony was that the film was set in '62 and dealt with the death of the 50's).

The soundtrack was standard issue. There weren't really oldies radio stations at the time, so hearing these songs in a film was huge. In some theaters the audience cheered when the film opened with Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock. What's great about the album today is that a few of the songs include DJ intros by Wolfman Jack.

A couple of other stars launched from the film: MacKenzie Phillips went on to star on One Day at a Time, and Wolfman Jack became a national figure with hosting gigs on Midnight Special and mentions in the popular songs of the early 70's.

Cindy Williams was an absolute girl next door cutie.

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I don’t know if there’s a technical term for it, but this movie gives me nostalgia for a time in which I had not lived.

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It might be that these movies hit on themes that aren't generational. Every generation of high school kids has the cool kids, the nerds, the bullies, the kids that overlap multiple groups... Dazed and Confused was my generation, but I can identify with American Graffiti and Fast Times at Ridgemont High.