Please note that the High will be closed during the screening (closes at 5 p.m. with last ticket sold at 4 p.m.).

"Where were you in 62?" That was the slogan some canny marketers made up to sell George Lucas's now classic coming-of-age film. American Graffiti follows four teenaged boys (Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfuss, Paul Le Mat, and Charles Martin Smith), raised on car-centric California youth culture and rock n' roll, as they say goodbye to their childhoods on the night before two of them are scheduled to leave for college.

The music is sublime and the guys are supported by a great female cast that includes Cindy Williams, Candy Clark, and Mackenzie Phillips. As The Onion A.V. Club's Keith Phipps observed, "Because it's been imitated so often, it's almost impossible to see what an innovative film Graffiti is, from its near-constant rock ‘n' roll soundtrack to the closing-credits summation of each protagonist's fate. It's more important, however, to see it as the great film it is, a funny, touching, nearly cliché-free, and thoroughly considered evocation of a time, place, and state of mind."

(U.S., 1973, 110 minutes.)

Note
Local car clubs will be on hand to show off gorgeous vintage cars from the 1960s.

Notes on outdoor screenings
Outdoor screenings on the Sifly Piazza are free. Bring your own blanket or seating. Outside alcohol is not permitted. In the event of rain the film will be moved to the 400-seat Rich Theatre.