Here's to you, Mrs Robinson.
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03/03/08
The Graduate (1967)
89 %
Reviews Counted: 44 Fresh: 39 Rotten:5 Average Rating: 8.2/10
Consensus:
The music, the performances, the precision in capturing the post-college malaise -- The Graduate's coming-of-age story is indeed one for the ages.
Runtime: 2 hrs 6 mins
Synopsis: Director Mike Nichols's THE GRADUATE is the satirical coming-of-age comedy that became an emotional touchstone for an entire generation. In the mid-1960s, Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), a confused college graduate, is pulled in myriad directions by family, friends, and... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, Murray Hamilton, William Daniels
Director: Mike Nichols
Producer: Lawrence Turman
Screenwriter: Calder Willingham, Buck Henry
Story: Charles Webb
Composer: Dave Grusin
Producer: Lawrence Turman
Screenwriter: Calder Willingham, Buck Henry
Story: Charles Webb
Composer: Dave Grusin
Reviews
Top Critic
The film itself is very broken-backed, partly because Anne Bancroft's performance as the mother carries so much more weight than Katharine Ross' as the daughter, partly because Nichols couldn't decide whether he was making a social satire or a farce.
06/24/06
Top Critic
Nichols provides a masterclass in using the widescreen frame to elucidate complex emotional situations with ease and understatement.
04/18/01
Top Critic Top Critic
Rather a shame it's so often mistaken for a statement about something beyond the milk-fed adolescent blues.
10/18/07
Mike Nichols' seminal film at once reflected the generation gap and also widened it, giving youths a clear voice, indigenous music, villains (all adults), and a sympathtic anti-hero, played to perfection by Dustin Hoffman in a career-making turn.
09/16/07
...plastics, an apt description for the artificial people and attitudes around him.
07/01/07
Nichols takes an ad hoc approach to comic irony and the movie seems to have been enshrined by American audiences because each moment in isolation "works," no matter that they tend to cancel each other out.
06/25/06
All the indie imitators that have come later still can't touch this hilarious and biting classic.
04/06/06
A rare movie that captures a societal zeitgeist with humor, drama and biting satire.
12/05/05
The post-college burnout feeling that continues to resonate with audiences today. A comedy of tragedy, in which a man's youthful idealism is dealt its inevitable deathblow.
01/14/05
They don't make 'em much better than this (or Anne Bancroft's unforgettable Mrs. Robinson).
02/05/04
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