Over the span of nine years, Hal Ashby released five movies that would comprise the highlights of his brief career: The Landlord (1970), his directorial debut, looked at race relations and gentrification. Harold and Maude (1971) tracked the love affair between a 20-year-old man and an 80-year-old free-spirited woman. Shampoo (1975), the story of a promiscuous stylist, played by Warren Beatty, satirized L.A.'s sexual mores. ComingHome (1978) starred Jane Fonda and Jon Voight in a Vietnam War-related romance. Being There (1979) featured Peter Sellers in an excoriation of the American political system.
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