Readers’ Choice: The Essential Boomer Movies
These 11 films resonated with those who grew up in the boomer generation
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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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9. 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
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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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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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6. 'American Graffiti'
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5. 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest'
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4. 'Star Wars'
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3. 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'
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2. 'The Godfather'
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1. 'The Graduate'
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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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 …
