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Mar 15, 2024 · Published Mar 15, 2024. John Milner's American Graffiti death at the very end was totally unexpected. Here's what happened and how he returned in the sequel years later. Custom Image by Stephen Barker. Summary. American Graffiti captures the essence of American teenage life on the cusp of the 1960s cultural revolution.
- George Lucas
- Richard Dreyfuss
New Year's Eve 1964: John Milner is a drag-strip racer and falls in love with Eva, an attractive young woman from Iceland who speaks no English. Regardless, Milner does his best to communicate with her.
- $8–15 million (US)
- August 3, 1979
- $2.5–3 million
- Howard Kazanjian
Also, the date of John Milner's death was changed from June 1964 to December 1964 to fit the narrative structure of the upcoming sequel, More American Graffiti. At the end of its theatrical run, American Graffiti had one of the greatest profit-to-cost ratios of a motion picture ever.
- $140 million
- George Lucas
- $777,000
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Richard Dreyfuss. As Curt Henderson, Richard Dreyfuss, now 75, found his early breakout role before going on to more than 120 movies, including Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Goodbye Girl, for which he received a Best Actor Oscar.
- Ron Howard. Ron Howard, 69, was already a successful child actor before landing a leading role as Steve Bolander, who longs to leave his hometown and go on to bigger, better things.
- Paul Le Mat. Paul Le Mat, 77, a U.S. Army veteran who’d served in Vietnam, had been working as a boxer when he scored his debut film acting role in American Graffiti role as John Milner, the town’s hot-rod champ with “the fastest car in the valley.”
- Charles Martin Smith. Charles Martin Smith, 69, began his career with a guest spot on TV’s The Brady Bunch. would later appear in numerous other TV shows and films, including The Untouchables, The Buddy Holly Story, Starman and Herbie Goes Bananas.
John Milner (Paul LeMat) is now a drag racer. He and his fellow competitors are racing each other for the right to race against the car made by a national racing team known as "The Factory". He gets to meet his old school friends Steve Bolander (Ron Howard) and Laurie Henderson (Cindy Williams) whom are now married and Laurie is nine months ...
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Feb 28, 2022 · Lucas' ending sees Curt and Steve's roles reversed: Steve promises to stay with Laurie after witnessing John and Bob's explosive drag race, and Curt bids goodbye to his parents and friends.
Aug 17, 1979 · Carol, the baby of the first film, seems much older than anyone else in the second.We know John Milner (Paul Le Mat) was killed by a drunken driver in 1964, so the movie has to roll back in...
