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Readers’ Choice: The Essential Boomer Movies

These 11 films resonated with those who grew up in the boomer generation

  • Readers Choice: The Essential Boomer Movies, C-3PO From Star Wars, Dustin Hoffman From The Graduate, Robert Redford From Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
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    Readers' Picks: 11 Movies Boomers Love

    En español | AARP asked our readers to come up with their top flicks. Here's the list you picked, starting with the 11th place selection …

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    11. Saturday Night Fever

    Critics remain divided over the politics of Don Siegel’s 1971 cop drama, but you can’t argue with the enduring power of Clint Eastwood’s Magnum-toting detective; he’d reprise the role in four sequels.

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    10. 'Dirty Harry'

    A sensation in 1975, Steven Spielberg’s shark saga of three men in a too-small boat ushered in the age of the summer blockbuster.

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  • Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Movie, Readers Choice: The Essential Boomer Movies
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    9. 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'

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  • Jaws, Movie, Readers Choice: The Essential Boomer Movies
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    8.' Jaws'

    Milos Forman’s film of Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel swept the Oscars in 1975 and gave Jack Nicholson one of his most iconic starring roles.

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  • MASH, Movie, Readers Choice: The Essential Boomer Movies
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    7. 'MASH'

    Paul Newman and Robert Redford, later to star in The Sting, make an affable pair of outlaws in director George Roy Hill’s revisionist Western from 1969.

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  • American Graffiti, Movie, Readers Choice: The Essential Boomer Movies
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    6. 'American Graffiti'

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  • Jack Nicholson, Actor, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Movie, Readers Choice: The Essential Boomer Movies
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    5. 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest'

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  • C-3PO, Mark Hamill, Alec Guinness, Actors, Star Wars A New Hope, Movie, Readers Choice: The Essential Boomer Movies
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    4. 'Star Wars'

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  • Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Actors, Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid Movie, Readers Choice: The Essential Boomer Movies
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    3. 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'

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  • Marlon Brando, Actor, The Godfather, Movie, Readers Choice: The Essential Boomer Movies
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    2. 'The Godfather'

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    1. 'The Graduate'

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