The Graduate

The Graduate
by Mike Nichols

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Actor: Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross, Murray Hamilton, William Daniels
Director: Mike Nichols
Writer: Buck Henry
Cinematographer: Robert Surtees
Editor: Sam O'Steen
Producer: Joseph E. Levine
Producer: Lawrence Turman
Writer: Calder Willingham
Writer: Charles Webb
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-04-05
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Embassy Pictures Corporation

DVD Reviews of The Graduate

DVD Review: Delightful fusion of craft and art
Summary: 5 Stars

Pitch-perfect fusion of dialogue, cinematography, music, acting, editing, direction to produce unforgettable scenes and images.

DVD Review: A great comedy
Summary: 4 Stars

From a wonderful novel by Charles Webb, to a fantastic screenplay by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry and then beautifully etched on the screen by director, Mike Nichols, The Graduate, to me, stands out as a an American classic. I saw it for the first time about five years ago and wondered how it must have been received when it first came out, because it held up for me. I saw it again last night and it still held up.

Nichols gave us a funny, but sophisticated take on a young man who just graduated college and, with degree in hand, doesn't have a clue about what would make him happy. Guys like sex. So, luckily at first, he has sex with a neighbor, an older woman, but it soon becomes routine. Then he falls in love with the neighbor's daughter and things get very complicated.

Dustin Hoffman is wonderful as the graduate. He is funny in an off-beat way, and he is always real. For me the star of the show is Anne Bancroft as the older woman neighbor. Though cynical and kind of tough, she is honest and vulnerable.

The main song by Simon and Garfunkle stayed with me long afterwards.

DVD Review: very happy
Summary: 5 Stars

i ordered the graduate and it arrived in perfect condition and well before the initial due date.

DVD Review: Would love to see a sequel
Summary: 4 Stars

It's about time that I saw this movie. How great! The theme is still relevant today! How many of us graduated and then thought about "Now what?". What does a degree mean today anyway, compared to 40 years ago? That's about when this movie was made.

The Graduate must have had quite an impact when it was first released. It may not have had that impact now, but that is because it probably set a trend.

Dustin Hoffman is better in this film than I've ever seen him. He's great in most films anyway. Anne Bancroft is very sexy as the older woman who seduces him, and she delivers a knockout acting performance. Katherine Ross and Willaim Daniels are also very good.

Based on the novel by Charles Webb, the screenplay, written by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry is funny and touching.

Director Mike Nichols creates a sophisticated and humorous take on this for a completely entertaining and interesting movie. I would like to see where these characters evolved to many years later.

DVD Review: Film Studies Review
Summary: 4 Stars

This film is about a guy name Benjamin who just gets home from a college. He is very worried about his future, and during a party that his parents for him, this makes him vulnerable to being seduced by Mrs. Robinson. She is married to Ben's father's business partner, and has known Ben for his whole life. Although, when she lures Ben into her home the first time, she is unsuccessful in seducing him. Eventually he gives into her, and they have affairs for many months. Elaine Robinson, Mrs. Robinson's daughter, comes back from school and Ben's parents set up a date between the two young adults. Ben ends up falling in love with Elaine, which makes Mrs. Robinson furious. Elaine then finds out about the affair and heads back to school. Knowing that Elaine is the one for him, Ben goes to find her at her school and tries to get her to marry him. It does work, but Mr. Robinson steps in and takes Elaine and tries to marry her off to some other guy. In a last hope of desperation, Ben searches for Elaine before she gets married. When he does find her the vows are already said, but Ben interrupts the wedding anyway. Then, Elaine yells out to Ben, he fights his way to her, and whisks her away into a bus. After they calm down, the movie with sincere expressions on their faces. "The Graduate" was a very tasteful film. I found it to be quite funny and that the story could basically fit our time period, not just the 60's. This characteristic is not commonly found in movies that were made more then four decades ago. This could be contributed to that the movie didn't give much of any relation from the events of the plot to the time period it was set. It also had a very complicated story. The acting was quite superb. I did not notice one character that seemed awkward or that I didn't like. Dustin Hoffman and Anne Boncroft (Ben and Mrs. Robinson) acted remarkably well especially when I heard that they were around the same age. in the film, Ben seems to be much younger then Mrs. Robinson. Not just in appearance, but also in the way that they acted. Nervous young Ben as compared to calm uncaring Mrs. Robinson. All the characters in this movie did very well in getting into their roles. The feelings and moods of the film were portrayed quite well. You could tell what Ben was feeling just by the every once and while shots of him either on a plane or on the bottom of the pool. He looked like he was lost in his own mind. The music was also very important to showing the mood of the story, and the soundtrack is quite amazing if I do say so myself. The film kept me interested because of how the characters grow with the story and the plot. If you just looked at the characters at the beginning of the movie and the end you can see that they all have changed a lot. In short, I really enjoy this movie and I will recommend it many people that I know. Plus, if they don't like it they at least have to respect the music in it. I have to say I think this is my favorite film from the 60's.

Description of The Graduate

Nominated* for seven Academy Awards?(r) and winner for Best Director, this ground breaking and "wildly hilarious" (The Boston Globe) social satire launched the career of two-time Oscar?(r)-winner** Dustin Hoffman and cemented the reputation of acclaimed director Mike Nichols. Pulsating with the rebellious spirit of the '60s and a haunting score sung by Simon and Garfunkel, The Graduate is truly a "landmark film" (Leonard Maltin). Shy Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) returns home from college with an uncertain future. Then the wife of his father's business partner, the sexy Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), seduces him, and the affair only deepens his confusion. That is, until he meets the girl of his dreams (Katharine Ross). But there's one problem: she's Mrs. Robinson's daughter!

Few films have defined a generation as The Graduate did. The alienation, the nonconformity, the intergenerational romance, the blissful Simon and Garfunkel soundtrack--they all served to lob a cultural grenade smack into the middle of 1967 America, ultimately making the film the third most profitable up to that time. Seen from a later perspective, its radical chicness has dimmed a bit, yet it's still a joy to see Dustin Hoffman's bemused Benjamin and Anne Bancroft's deliciously decadent, sardonic Mrs. Robinson. The script by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham is still offbeat and dryly funny, and Mike Nichols, who won an Oscar for his direction, has just the right, light touch. --Anne Hurley

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