The first and most successful Beatles movie - made at the height of Beatlemania in 1964. Depicting a couple of...
The first and most successful Beatles movie - made at the height of Beatlemania in 1964. Depicting a couple of days in the lives of the group, the Beatles travel from Liverpool by train for a London TV show. Nominated for Best Screenplay and Best Music at the 1965 Academy Awards, the film is considered one of the best musical films of all time - described by Roger Ebert as "one of the great life-affirming landmarks of the movies". Features the songs A Hard Day's Night, All My Loving, Can't Buy Me Love and She Loves You amongst others.
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98 %111 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
89 %50,580 reviewsAudience score rating
"Charged with vitality, and inventiveness."
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Variety
Variety"The mop-tops are likeably relaxed, with Lennon offering a few welcome moments of his dry, acerbic wit."
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Time Out
Time Out"It's a fine conglomeration of madcap clowning in the old Marx Brothers' style, and it is done with such a dazzling use of camera that it tickles the intellect and electrifies the nerves."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"One of the great life-affirming landmarks of the movies."
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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert"The film is mad, mad and crazy, shrewdly designed for the teenage and calculated also to attract the curious and the oldsters who enjoy this sort of thing."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"Great band, great music, great film. Not only that, it remains a fascinating portrait of Britain on the cusp of change."
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Empire Magazine
Empire Magazine"Lester's innovative film is a timewarp memento of that brief 1963-4 phase in their history known as Beatlemania."
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BBC
BBCA Hard Day's Night | Details
- Rating
- PG,
- Runtime
- 87
- Genre
- Comedy, Music
- Country of origin
- UK
