American Graffiti

George Lucas' second movie, produced by Coppola, that seminal tale of americana and inspiration for Happy Days. It's not a bad film--entertaining enough but it seems sort of saccharine, nothing is really on the line until the race between Harrison Ford and Paul Le Mat, but even then everyone goes home and back to normal. I've been told this movie has a lot of prototype framing and scene placement that were used in Start Wars: A New Hope, but frankly, I didn't see it, and I'm a bit of a Star Wars fan. The most amusing thing to me was that Ron Howard was in it, and I happened to be watching Arrested Development at the time.