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The Graduate

1967 Directed by Mike Nichols

This is Benjamin. He's a little worried about his future.

Benjamin, a recent college graduate is very worried about his future, he then finds himself in a love triangle with an older woman and her daughter.

Dustin Hoffman Anne Bancroft Katharine Ross Murray Hamilton Buck Henry Brian Avery Walter Brooke William Daniels Elizabeth Wilson Norman Fell Alice Ghostley Marion Lorne Eddra Gale Richard Dreyfuss Arthur Tovey William H. O'Brien Frank Baker

106 mins More details at IMDb TMDb Report this film

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Review by Jonathan White ★★★★★ 32

Mike Nichols, the multi-disciplined artist, passed away yesterday. When I read the news, I was amazed at how accomplished he was. Not only film, but stage and performance as well. He was one of the few who achieved the EGOT. Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony. In fact, he had more Tony’s than any other stage director. Although he helmed many memorable films, there was none more memorable for me than The Graduate.

I don’t know when I first saw The Graduate, but I know I had seen it quite a few times before I was 16, as that was the age when I met my first love, Cheryl. Our first kiss, the first time we met, was magic. Soon we…
Review by Mary Conti ★★★★★ 9

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

**Part of the Best Picture Project**

1967 Special introduction of: Extreme sexuality, the new generation, and Mrs. Robinson's Robinsons.

So instead of boring you folks (and myself) with the regular ol' "Such a classic!" kind of review where I talk about the film's great sense of screenplay structure, Nichol's approach (which rightfully won him Best Director) that allows him to manipulate us visually while letting content decide for us, and how Dustin Hoffman is clearly the best actor of his generation (because he is), I want to approach this film from a different angle.

Has anyone considered that Benjamin is the villain of the film?

And no, I don't mean in recognizing at the famous final scene that the two…
Review by Katie ★★★★★ 5

I can't believe I got to see this on the big screen. I can't believe it. I'm still crying. Holy fucking shit.
Review by ScreeningNotes ★★★★★ 9

Decades Project: 1/6 of the 60's

"It's like I was playing some kind of game, but the rules don't make any sense to me. They're being made up by all the wrong people. I mean no one makes them up. They seem to make themselves up."

The Graduate was so much weirder than I expected, and I don't mean because of all the sex stuff. It was weird in the best way possible. I (wrongly) assumed it would be a fairly traditional coming-of-age comedy. This is not the case at all—and not merely because it's exceptionally well built. The weirdest thing about The Graduate is the way it smuggles in satirical social commentary where you least expect it.

Straight from…
Review by jose ★★★★

ok straight film dude bros, you won this time
Review by Katie ★★★★★ 2

The Saduate (1967) dir. Mike Nichols

Recent reviews

Review by Mathias Rainer ★★★½

Fantastischer Soundtrack!
Dustin Hoffman spielt den unsicheren Bubi fast schon zu ausufernd.
Review by ryan fox ★★★★½

mike nichols invented handheld shots and the color black
Review by Emilio ★★★

Cute plot but did any of these characters know how to critically think?! Anne Bancroft is a baddie though and she really beat that girl’s ass in the end
Review by jacob ★★★★

dustin hoffman swinging a giant cross at anne bancroft.... poetic cinema
Review by Ms_Zero 🦄 ★

Scavenger Hunt 43
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I don’t know if it’s because I’m still grieving and not in a good head space, but I hated every second of this.
Review by lucas ★★★½

i,,, don’t know if i liked it or not,,, one thing im sure of: d*stin h*ffman can fuck off
Review by Sean Meade ★★★★★

A few days ago I watched Michaelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up and said it was the best film I'd seen in ages. I didn't expect to find another film I'd love that much so quickly. I can't wait to see this again. You can really see how influential it was on Wes Anderson, one of my favorite filmmakers, particularly in his film Rushmore. Also, and I may be wrong but, I think it influenced Tom Green while writing Freddy Got Fingered? "Proud, proud, proud...," the scooba gear, etc. Weird.
Review by Daniel Sorkin ★★★★★

Plastics
Review by jessicaf ★★½

this guy is a pain in the ass