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Graduate, The
(El Graduado)
1967 -
USA -
106 min. -
Feature, Color
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Director:
Mike Nichols
Cast:
Dustin Hoffman,
Anne Bancroft,
Katharine Ross,
William Daniels,
Richard Dreyfuss.
More Information:
All Movie Guide
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- Lang.: English
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Sinopsis
(All Movie Guide)
"Just one word: Plastics." "Are you here for an
affair?" These lines and others became cultural touchstones, as 1960s youth
rebellion seeped into the California upper middle class in
Mike Nichols'
landmark hit. Mentally adrift the summer after graduating from college,
suburbanite Benjamin Braddock (Dustin
Hoffman) would rather float in his parents' pool than follow adult advice
about his future. But the exhortation of family friend Mr. Robinson (Murray
Hamilton) to seize every possible opportunity inspires Ben to accept an
offer of sex from icily feline Mrs. Robinson (Anne
Bancroft). The affair and the pool are all well and good until Ben is
pushed to go out with the Robinsons' daughter Elaine (Katharine
Ross), and he falls in love with her. Mrs. Robinson sabotages the
relationship, and an understandably disgusted Elaine runs back to college.
Determined not to let Elaine get away, Ben follows her to school and then
disrupts her family-sanctioned wedding. None too happy about her
pre-determined destiny, Elaine flees with Ben — but to what? Directing his
second feature film after
Who's Afraid of
Virginia Woolf?, Nichols matched the story's satire of suffocating
middle-class shallowness with an anti-Hollywood style influenced by the
then-voguish French New Wave. Using odd angles, jittery editing, and evocative
wide-screen photography, Nichols welded a hip New Wave style and a
generation-gap theme to a fairly traditional screwball comedy script by
Buck Henry
and Calder
Willingham from
Charles
Webb's novel. Adding to the European art film sensibility, the movie
offers an unsettling and ambiguous ending with no firm closure. And, rather
than Robert
Redford, Nichols opted for a less glamorous unknown for the pivotal role
of Ben, turning Hoffman into a star and opening the door for unconventional
leading men throughout the 1970s. With a pop-song score written by
Paul Simon
and performed by Simon & Garfunkel bolstering its contemporary appeal,
The Graduate
opened to rave reviews in December 1967 and surpassed all commercial
expectations. It became the top-grossing film of 1968 and was nominated for
seven Oscars, including Best Picture, Actor, and Actress, with Nichols winning
Best Director. Together with
Bonnie and Clyde,
it stands as one of the most influential films of the late '60s, as its
mordant dissection of the generation gap helped lead the way to the
youth-oriented Hollywood artistic "renaissance" of the early 1970s.
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