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British-American musical comedy film by Richard Lester

A Hard Day's Night is a musicalcomedy film starring the English rock band the Beatles – John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr – during the height of Beatlemania.

Directed by Richard Lester, it was written by Alun Owen and originally released by United Artists.^[3] The film portrays 36 hours in the lives of the group as they prepare for a television performance.

The film was a commercial and critical success and was nominated for two Academy Awards, including Best Original Screenplay.

Forty years after its release, Time magazine rated it as one of the all-time greatest films.^[4] In , British critic Leslie Halliwell described it as a "comic fantasia with music; an enormous commercial success with the director trying every cinematic gag in the book" and awarded it a full four stars.^[5] The film is credited as being one of the most influential