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More American Graffiti (1979) is the little-seen follow-up film to George Lucas' hit film American Graffiti
(1973). Whereas the first film followed a group of friends during the summer evening before they set off for college, this film shows us where the characters from the first film end up a few years later.

Most cast members from the first film returned for this sequel, including Candy Clark, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Cindy Williams, Mackenzie Phillips, Charles Martin Smith and even Harrison Ford turns up again in a very short cameo. The notable exception is Richard Dreyfuss.

The film made considerably less money than the first film, and its critical reception was nowhere near as positive as it had been for American Graffiti. The making-of documentary for The Phantom Menace shows Lucas joking on-set about how little money More American Graffiti made.

The film is set over four consecutive New Year's Eves, 1965, 1966, 1967 and 1968 and scenes from each of these years are intercut with one another as though the events are happening simultaneously. The audience is protected from being confused by the conceit through the use of a distinct cinematic style for each section. For example, the 1968 sequences echo the movie of Woodstock by using split screen techniques and multiple angles of the same event shown simutaneously on screen, whereas the 1966 sequences (set in Vietnam) are shot hand-held, on grainy super 16mm film and designed to resemble war reporters' footage. Each section takes pains to recreate the sensibilities and style of its era, and there are references to Haight-Ashbury, the campus peace movement, and the accompanying social revolt.

The stock car racing scenes for "More American Graffiti" were filmed at the Fremont Raceway, later Baylands Raceway Park, in Fremont, California.

The movie was written and directed by Bill L. Norton who was picked by Lucas as being suitable due to his California upbringing and experience with comedy. Lucas was involved in the production, acting as the Executive Producer, writing the Screen Story for the film, acting as an editor on both Norton's screenplay and the finished motion picture and even manning a camera for sequences sets in the Vietnam War.

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