The Graduate
1967 | Comedy | USA | Directed by Mike Nichols
Overview
Dustin Hoffman, thirty playing twenty one, adrift after college, is seduced by Mrs. Robinson and falls for her daughter. Simon and Garfunkel wrote the soundtrack of generational rupture, and Nichols used a scuba suit as suffocation. Plastics became the advice that named an era. Nichols won the Oscar. The definition of a movie catching a culture mid shift.
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