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Graduate, The
Embassy Pictures Corporation


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MPAA RATING: PG

Starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, and William Daniels

Shy Benjamin Braddock (Hoffman) returns home from college with an uncertain future. Then the wife of his father's business partner, the sexy Mrs. Robinson (Bancroft), seduces him, and the affair only deepens his confusion. That is, until he meets the girl of his dreams (Ross). But there's one problem: she's Mrs. Robinson's daughter. (MGM)

GENRE(S):	Classic \| Comedy \| Drama \| Romance
WRITTEN BY:	Buck Henry Calder Willingham Charles Webb (novel)
DIRECTED BY:	Mike Nichols
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: December 29, 1998 Theatrical: December 21, 1967
RUNNING TIME:	105 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

Won Golden Globes for Best Musical/Comedy, Lead Actress (Anne Bancroft), Director, Promising Newcomer - Female (Katharine Ross), and Promising Newcomer - Male (Dustin Hoffman). Won Oscar for Best Director and 6 other nominations.

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100

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

The funniest American comedy of the year.

100

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

Dustin Hoffman gives the inspired performance that launched his movie career, and director Mike Nichols shows a gift for social satire that has never glistened quite so brightly since. [Review of re-release]

100

TV Guide Ethan Alter

The Graduate is a flawlessly acted and produced film. [Review of re-release]

Variety A.D. Murphy

The Graduate is a delightful, satirical comedy-drama about a young man's seduction by an older woman, and the measure of maturity which he attains from the experience.

The New York Times Bosley Crowther

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.

Austin Chronicle Alison Macor

Hoffman and Bancroft are phenomenally cast in a script co-written by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham that is by turns sly, touching, and amazingly fresh 30 years later. [Review of re-release]

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

The light ribbing of conspicuous consumption in southern California and the Simon and Garfunkel songs on the sound track both play considerable roles in giving this depthless comedy some bounce. [Review of re-release]

Salon.com Robin Dougherty

What was once an all-important signpost to adulthood is really little more than a simple romantic comedy whose "countercultural" message, insofar as it has one, is decidedly retrograde. [Review of re-release]

Boston Globe Jay Carr

The Graduate is not subtle in its writing off of the parental generation as hopelessly corrupt. [Review of re-release]

Time Staff (Not Credited)

The screenplay, which begins as genuine comedy, soon degenerates into spurious melodrama.

The average user rating for this movie is 8.0 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes
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Alyssa C. gave it a10:
Classic.

Adam S. gave it an8:
Good, not great.

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Graduate, The Embassy Pictures Corporation

Graduate, The
Embassy Pictures Corporation