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This one is all about the vibes of one crazy night! And the music of course! Obviously great music throughout and really thought the Wolfman DJ'ing the movie was so cool! Lots of stars in this when they were young and just a really cool vibe. Makes me wanna cruise around in my car with all my friends -- all listening to the Wolfman of course! What other 'one crazy night' movies are there?

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Geoff S.

Adventures In Babysitting is a good one night adventure movie.

Jake McNulty

In answer to your question Jen "Dazed and Confused" (1993) comes to mind.

Ian

When the music is to Jen's liking you know the reaction is going to be off the chain 🔥🔥🔥

Thadman

"After Hours" (1985) and I can 2nd "Go!"

Arthur 'Two Sheds' Jackson

"Go" and "Human Traffic" (which is just the British cousin of "Go"). Also Clerks, which is pretty high on the movie request site 😆

Drew

Is mentioned below, but I will second "After Hours" which is a very entertaining Scorsese movie.

JPDotCom23

Not sure if anyone mentioned, this movie inspired the 70’s popular tv show ‘Happy Days’, which also starred Ron Howard, and Cindy Williams who showed up in its spin-off show ‘Laverne & Shirley’

Rob Nichols

My adds for one crazy night movies: Blind Date (1987) with Bruce Willis, and Quick Change (1990) with Bill Murray.

Kane

Some all in one day/night movies off the top of my head, Clerks, Warriors, Attack the Block, Three O'Clock High, Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, Rocky Horror

Kane

It's interesting if you read the behind the scenes stuff about this movie the finished product was largely made in editing or reshoots, including all the Wolfman Jack stuff. The original concept of the movie was quite different, it fuels one of the eternal debates of our pop culture lifetimes... Was George Lucas a genius way ahead of his time, or a guy with crazy ideas who got really, really lucky. Stories about what a disaster the original Star Wars was until his wife and other saved it at the last moment in editing and basically everything George has done since 1989 kind of point to a guy who stumbled backwards into success. Then again, we're talking about the guy who created Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Willow, probably deserves the lions' share of the credit he's gotten.

Harvey Lee

One of the greatest coming of age movies ever , I am finishing off some work then I'll be watching this 😎 What a banging soundtrack🎵🎶 and cast of future great stars , all taking place in one eventful night This is still the only Non Sci Fi film George Lucas has directed Can u dig it !!!?? Far out 😆🤘 🤘😆

Harvey Lee

Add to that list The Breakfast Club and After hours . American Graffiti is also one of the few films shot in sequence in other words the scenes were filmed in the exact order that they happen in the film .

zynjams

another great 70s music movie would be Saturday Night Fever

zynjams

Stoned Age is a good retro movie about one night of partying in the 70s, great 70s soundtrack

Kane

Breakfast Club is already on the channel.

Christian Rennie

I grew up in the town this movie was filmed. There is a yearly "American Graffiti" day when people bring out their "boss" old cars. Sometimes the stars were at the shopping center where the event took place. I got to meet Cindy Williams one year. The town is near Skywalker Ranch and one year all of the stars had a reunion with George. Covid kinda killed the shopping center gathering and nowadays people just drive around in their classic cars. It is a special movie and it was truly celebrated for a long time by the generation of people that lived in that time, like my Dad that always played the 50/60 music from when he was a teen. He had his own 54 Buick Roadmaster that he tried to keep working but with kids your "boss" car from childhood takes a back seat as it were. All of the behind the scenes is interesting. Notice there were no Elvis songs? The most popular artist of that era and they weren't able to play his music in the movie. No soundtrack.... just tunes is pretty neat too. Explorers was also partially shot in this town. Also filmed there Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), featuring an early Nicolas Cage and Jim Carrey. I recommend this one because it gives you that same proxy nostalgia the around the same time as Graffiti. It is a Francis Ford Coppola film and Nic Gage is actually a Coppola (just changed his name for screen).

zynjams

the license plate of John Milner's deuce coup THX 138 is the name of George Lucas' first movie

zynjams

other Richard Dreyfus movies that are worth checking out are Let it Ride, a comedy about Horse Racing, and the Goodbye Girl, a Romcom

Matt O'Keefe

This was one of my mom's favorite. She graduated high school in 1960. So all the songs in this brought bacl great memories for her. Along with the waitresses with roller skates, and the hanging out all night and she lived near a place where all the kids could drive around like in this movie.

zynjams

in 1973 I was 12, this movie shaped my life, HUGE music fan of the early 60s, I followed all of the actors throughout the 70s

Zapp Rowsdower

Rock fact: Wolfman Jack's name and on-air voice and personality were inspired by blues legend, Howlin' Wolf. Check out a few of his songs from the 50s, like "How Many More Years", "Moanin' at Midnight", "I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)" and "Evil (is Going On)", and you'll hear it.

James Miley

Dazed and Confused (1993) would be a great reaction. It's very similar in tone to American Graffiti, also has great music, and features some familiar faces in early roles.

Harvey Lee

Dazed and Confused is often compared to American Graffiti and I'm sure the former was influenced by the latter here . Both movies have a loose structure and not any real solid plot per se , are set at the end of school and are nostalgic films about a past era .

Toc

FANTASTIC reaction. There was no way this reaction could miss. And the absolute best post-movie analysis of it........got it 1000%. One of the absolute top, top reactions to American Graffiti ever, from the very first second of the movie. They should put this reaction on the DVD. PS: One night movies? Martin Scorsese's wild, hilarious 80s dark-comedy "After Hours"!!!! Another super stacked cast! And just under an hour and a half....super short movie, which I know is a consideration for you right now! We need WAY more reactions to that Scorsese classic, and you're the perfect reactor for it. Scorsese's "After Hours" (1985). Do not miss that one! One of his absolute best films!

Toc

Fantastic movie.

Toc

DEFINITELY "Dazed And Confused". I thought she had done it already! ABSOLUTELY......it's a 1976 American Graffiti!

Toc

Because you asked: this was the first grown-up movie I saw in a movie theatre, my parents took me with them, I was like 6. I already knew the soundtrack like the back of my hand and studied all the pictures of the movie, although I had no idea what it was about. Being in a packed theatre seeing this in the early 70s was DAZZLING and it was basically a party. I was blown away by the visuals, by this world, and by the blasting music. I remember hearing gasps and sobs when the epilogue happened and having to have it explained to me in the car ride home. One of MANY 70s endings that leave you bummed out! I'm probably one of the only kids whose first George Lucas movie wasn't Star Wars, lol. And if you asked me when I was a kid, I still would have told you I preferred "Graffiti"! Ha! PS: I thought you had done "Dazed And Confused". Oh my god. They are twins. Dazed is the little brother movie to American Graffiti. You can see it asap or whenever you want, but they ARE related. Together the two movies are about the elephant in the room, the thing you never see: the 60s. Or as you say at the end of this reaction: "the hard 60s". You will totally get it.

Patrick Turman

Great job, Jen! You probably know by now but Wolfman Jack was a real DJ. He was host of a very popular late night show in the 70s that had on it just about everybody you can think of who was popular at the time--playing live for a studio audience their biggest hits. It was called Midnight Special. Check it out on you tube. If you're a fan of classic rock, you'll love it!

james repka

Another vote for Go. Great cast, great script, Directed by Doug Lymon who also directed Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the first of the Bourne trilogy, and Edge of Tomorrow (and soon, its sequel)