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Cast
- Paul Le MatJohn Milner
- Cindy WilliamsLaurie Bolander
- Candy ClarkDebbie Dunham
- Charles Martin SmithTerry "Terry the Toad" Fields
- Mackenzie PhillipsCarol / Rainbow
- Bo HopkinsLittle Joe
- Ron HowardSteve Bolander
- Will SeltzerAndy Henderson
- Anna BjornEva
- Scott GlennNewt
Recommendations
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The Dissolve
It’s ambitious, drug-infused, psychedelic, and fractured in strange and interesting ways. - 67
Austin Chronicle
The split screen is distracting enough, but it is the choppy scenes representing the passage of time that make the story hard to follow. More American Graffiti is not without its moments, though, and Cindy Williams' moment of realization -- when she defies authority to lead a police wagon full of women in singing Baby Love-- is a joy. - 50
Variety
While dazzling to the eye, the flirtation with split-screen, anamorphic, 16mm and 1:85 screen sizes does not justify itself in terms of the film’s content. What Norton and producer Howard Kazanjian are attempting, and what a variety of technicians pull off flawlessly, is daring, but ultimately pointless. - 50
Newsweek
In lieu of dramatic depth, Norton's film relies on its wonderful sound-track music to suggest the emotional truth of the era. Anyone who went through the '60s listening to Heat Wave and 96 Tears, to Cream and the Byrds and Aretha Franklin, will be instantly aroused: the memories they prompt are more stirring, troubling and complex than anything More American Graffiti chooses to show us. [27 Aug 1979, p.63] - 50
The Associated Press
The sequel follows four unconnected stories in different locales, with resultant confusion. Especially since writer-director B.W.L. Norton has employed the outmoded multi-image screen. Still, the movie has moments -- car races, campus riots and especially in the war-zone sequences. [30 Jul 1979] - 50
The Seattle Times
The idea may have sounded great in film school. As written and directed by B.W.L. Norton, that's where it should have stayed. Still, the music of the period is well-used, and Charlie Martin Smith, Candy Clark and Cindy Williams rise above the script problems. [05 Dec 1991, p.F3] - 42
Entertainment Weekly
A coming-of-age picture that never arrives. - 40
The New York Times
More American Graffiti is grotesquely misconceived, so much so that it nearly eradicates fond memories of the original.
