Mike Nichols' Oscar-winning coming-of-age comedy about a college graduate (Dustin Hoffman) caught in a romantic rut between the love of...
Mike Nichols' Oscar-winning coming-of-age comedy about a college graduate (Dustin Hoffman) caught in a romantic rut between the love of the woman he adores (Katharine Ross) and the shallow affair he had with her mother, Mrs Robinson (Anne Bancroft).
Having finished college, Ben Braddock returns home to a family that expects great things from him. But after his welcome-home party, he gets caught in an affair with the wife of his father’s business partner, Mrs "you're trying to seduce me" Robinson. However, after the fling passes, Ben is pushed by his father to take Elaine, Mrs. Robinson’s daughter, out on a date. As their romantic involvement deepens, so do the consequences of Ben’s taboo affair.
Hoffman's deadpan performance, Simon & Garfunkel's soundtrack and the film's cynical malaise have made the film a generation-defining classic.
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87 %91 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
90 %183,986 reviewsAudience score rating
"Nichols’s near-flawless class satire still feels as sly, modern and bracing as it must have in 1967."
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Time Out
Time Out"The dialogue’s a joy and Nichols furnishes impeccable comic timing. Utterly of its period, yet timeless."
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Total Film
Total Film"The excellence of Katherine Ross as Mrs Robinson’s daughter, Elaine, is often overlooked."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"The cinematography is flat-out fantastic, like David Hockney’s pool paintings made live."
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The Times
The Times"The film (has) a sense of freewheeling freshness, a sheen of visual inventiveness that hasn’t dimmed over the years."
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Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine"Passively misogynistic and emotionally muddled..."
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Salon
Salon"Funny, outrageous, and touching, The Graduate is a sophisticated film that puts Mr. Nichols and his associates on a level with any of the best satirists working abroad today."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"To know that the movie once spoke strongly to a generation is to understand how deep the generation gap ran during that extraordinary time in the late 1960s."
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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert"Cruel comedy with a delicious light touch."
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Empire Magazine
Empire Magazine"Nichols provides a masterclass in using the widescreen frame to elucidate complex emotional situations with ease and understatement."
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BBC
BBCThe Graduate | Details
Award winner- Best Director (Mike Nichols) at the 1967 Academy Awards. Best Film, BAFTA Awards 1967.
- Rating
- 12A, moderate sex references, infrequent brief nudity
- Runtime
- 106
- Genre
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Country of origin
- USA
