A Hard Day's Night (1964)
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Critic Consensus: A Hard Day's Night, despite its age, is still a delight to watch and has proven itself to be a rock-and-roll movie classic.
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Cast
as Paul
as John
as Ringo
as George
as Grandfather

as Shake

as Television Director
as Norm

as TV Director

as Police Inspector
as Millie
as Simon

as Man on Train

as Hotel waiter

as TV Floor Manager

as TV Choreographer

as Secretary
as Society reporter
as Barmaid

as Actor

as Young Boy

as Barmaid

as Casino manager

as (uncredited)
as car thief

as Jean, schoolgirl on train
as Grandfather's Girl at Casino

as casino croupier

as Leslie Jackson

as Lead Makeup Woman

as Brunette Showgirl
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Critic Reviews for A Hard Day's Night
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The movie never feels like a nostalgia trip. It moves, breathes and sings with life.
The results remain pop perfection.
The whole movie is an ecstatic mix of serendipity and invention. The Beatles were ready for their cinematic breakthrough.
Rejected the status quo with an irreverent, quick-cutting documentary style that could fairly be described as mod, rocking and mocking.
Let's talk about joy, and about wistfulness, because one so often trails the other, and both are woven into the DNA of A Hard Day's Night.
At best, it is fun. But "fun" is not an aesthetic experience: fun remains on the surface. I have nothing against the surface. But it belongs where it is and shouldn't be taken for anything else.
Audience Reviews for A Hard Day's Night
The Beatles prepare for a show that night, but the lads are always goofing off, chasing girls, and trying to track down Paul's grandfather. Silly, witty and nearly plotless, this musical comedy is a masterpiece of image manipulation, with the Beatles coming off as totally non-threatening rebels. Paul's "clean" grandfather steals the show.

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A Hard Day's Night is not particularly deep but it is fun - displaying an irreverent charm that is joyous. The Beatles come across as likable and witty. It simplifies their personalities and then amplifies them in short easy to digest sound bites. Yes, they are caricatures of their personas but these are appealing distortions of themselves. The production is highlighted by a manic energy. There are a lot of funny bits contained within. My favorite: Ringo puts his coat down for a girl so that she can walk across a muddy puddle several times before she ultimately falls down a deep hole. Oh and let's not forget the music! As far as this Beatles fan is concerned, every song is gold, but highlights include: "If I Fell", "And I Love Her", "She Loves You", "Can't Buy Me Love" and the title hit of course. fastfilmreviews.com
Super Reviewer
Created and meant merely to promote the latest youth fad of the moment, herein is a flower saved between the pages of Western civilisation's diary of a wonderful day we all shared once. The Kennedys, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement, Twiggy and the Mods, why it seemed as if we all were taking the first real breath of fresh air since WWII ... and at the center of the excitement for hope of a new day: four youngsters with long hair ("moptops") dancing about and singing. Richard Lester's postcard of that day still resonates though it all seems so very long ago ... 50 years ago, to be exact. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!
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A Hard Day's Night Quotes
Grandfather: | [Looking straight at a woman's large bosom] I bet you're a great swimmer. |
Grandfather: | I bet you're a great swimmer. |
Paul McCartney: | We're a community, majority vote, up the workers and all that stuff! |
John Lennon: | He's a nice old man, isn't he? |
Paul McCartney: | He's very clean. |
Society reporter: | What do you call that haircut? |
George Harrison: | "ARTHUR" |
George Harrison: | ARTHUR. |
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