More American Graffiti | |
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Directed by | Bill L. Norton |
Written by | Bill L. Norton |
Based on | Characters by George Lucas Gloria Katz Willard Huyck |
Produced by | Howard Kazanjian |
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Cinematography | Caleb Deschanel |
Edited by | Tina Hirsch |
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Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $2.5[1]–3 million[2] |
Box office | $8–15 million (US)[2][3] |
More American Graffiti is a 1979 American coming-of-age comedy film written and directed by Bill L. Norton, produced by Howard Kazanjian. The film, shot in multiple aspect ratios for comedic and dramatic emphasis, is the sequel to the 1973 film American Graffiti. While the first film followed a group of friends during the evening before they depart for college, the sequel depicts where they end up on consecutive New Years Eves from 1964 to 1967.
Most of the main cast members from the first film returned for the sequel, including Candy Clark, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Cindy Williams, Mackenzie Phillips, Charles Martin Smith, Bo Hopkins, and Harrison Ford. (Richard Dreyfuss was the only principal cast member from the original film not to appear in the sequel.) It was the final live-action theatrical film in which Ron Howard would play a credited, named character.