Harry and Tonto
Harry and Tonto is a 1974 road movie written by Paul Mazursky and Josh Greenfeld and directed by Mazursky. It features Art Carney as Harry in an Academy Awardwinning performance. Tonto is his pet cat.
Initially planning to fly to Chicago, he instead boards a longdistance bus, then buys a used car after Tonto wanders away from the bus. During his episodic journey, he befriends a Biblequoting hitchhiker Michael Butler and underage runaway Ginger Melanie Mayron, visits his daughter Ellen Burstyn, a bookstore owner in Chicago, and drops in on an early sweetheart Geraldine Fitzgerald in a retirement home, where she suffers from dementia.Continuing west, Harry accepts a ride with a healthfood salesman Arthur Hunnicutt, makes the acquaintance of an attractive hooker Barbara Rhoades on his way to Las Vegas, then spends a night in jail with a friendly Native American Chief Dan George. He eventually makes it to Los Angeles, where he stays with his youngest son Larry Hagman before finding a place of his own with Tonto, who, much like Harry, is dealing the best he can with the hardships of old age. ........
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