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The Graduate
The film tells the story of 21-year-old Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), a recent college graduate with no well-defined aim in life, who finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
9 December 1930, New York City, New York, USA
13 October 1914, New York City, New York, USA
September 14, 1952 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA
19 July 1891, Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
6 February 1939, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
29 January 1940, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
12 April 1896, Kingman, Arizona, USA
4 November 1932, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
14 August 1923, Eve, Missouri, USA
24 March 1923, Washington, North Carolina, USA
2 August 1913, New York, USA
May 31, 2016
The Graduate is exciting because it captured a specific moment in time culturally, but within its three main characters, it captures timeless themes of feeling desperate, lost, and confused.
March 10, 2015
"Never trust anyone over 30" is a slogan that could have served the Restoration as well as it does our own time, and Nichols makes the old formula seem as topical as mini-skirts.
November 24, 2014
The Graduate gives some substance to the contention that American films are coming of age -- of our age.
March 10, 2015
Directorially, it is as cutting-edge late-Sixties as you can get -- all fish-bowl juxtapositions, dappled light and pensive close-ups.
January 14, 2013
The emotional elevation of the film is due in no small measure to the extraordinarily engaging performances of Anne Bancroft as the wife-mother-mistress, Dustin Hoffman as the lumbering Lancelot, and Katherine Ross as his fair Elaine.
March 10, 2015
Be agog at Anne Bancroft's Mrs. Robinson in some of the most hilariously icky seduction scenes ever filmed. See Mike Nichols (with help from Simon & Garfunkel) take control of the Zeitgeist. See the mood go dark -- darker than you remember.
April 10, 2012
It's consistently fleet and funny, even as it probes the heady abandon and looming hangover that typified the decade of discontent.
November 20, 2014
The remarkably true ring of Webb's dialogue is preserved and augmented, the visual potential lifted to next power in absurdity.
March 06, 2016
Every element seemed to align for Mike Nichols, from perfect casting and honest performances, to ... that iconic Simon & Garfunkel soundtrack.
March 10, 2015
As it stands, the vacuum of that warped, moneyed Los Angeles society is too exaggerated, too incredible. But one can't help but believe in Hoffman if not in the disjointed character he portrays.
March 10, 2015
Dustin Hoffman gives the inspired performance that launched his movie career, and director Mike Nichols shows a gift for social satire that has never glistened quite so brightly since.
