Melanie Mayron in Harry and Tonto (1974)

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The “road movie” has seldom traveled a route so rich in humor, pathos, kindness, compassion, weirdness, and common-sense love than the path taken by Harry and Tonto (1974). Harry is a man reaching the end of his life, retired, widowed, living alone with his cat, Tonto, in the big-city building where all his adult years had passed and where his adult children had been reared. When Harry’s home is razed and replaced with a parking lot, the elderly fellow is forced to recognize that his profound and whimsical journey has at least one more leg to go. He packs up the cat and heads cross-country, communing with his family, his friends, and all the assorted freaks he meets along the way.