American Graffiti is a 1973 period coming of age dramedy film directed by George Lucas, and written by Lucas, Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck. The film includes a mostly young and unknown cast of Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, Cindy Williams, Candy Clark, Mackenzie Phillips, Harrison Ford, Kathleen Quinlan and Suzanne Somers. American Graffiti is set in 1962 Modesto, California, and tells the exploits of a group of teenagers and their adventures within one night of driving around town, while listening to pirate radio personality Wolfman Jack (who cameos as himself).

Development phase for the film started shortly after the release of Lucas's THX 1138. Lucas was also developing an "untitled science fiction space opera" at the same time (later becoming the basis for Star Wars). The film was originally supposed to be funded by United Artists, but after creative differences, Lucas was able to find friendly operations at Universal Pictures. Filming started at San Rafael, California, but the production was kicked out of the town and the majority of the film was shot in Petaluma. Although Universal had little interferences during filming, they did object to the film's title of American Graffiti, wishing Lucas to change it to Another Slow Night in Modesto. Lucas brought in fellow friend Haskell Wexler as a "visual consultant" to solve problems with lighting and cinematography.

The editing process of the film was a strenuous path, with the first cut being roughly 210 minutes long, and the final cut was released at 112 minutes (to this day the other 100 minutes of footage remains unknown). American Graffiti received positive reviews and was a unanimous box office success (recouping 45 times its budget with its North American financial take). The film was nominated for five different categories at the 46th Academy Awards, and in 1995, American Graffiti was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress, being put for preservation in the National Film Registry.

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