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- Year
- 1967
- Runtime
- 106 min.
- Director
- Mike Nichols
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Comedy
- Rating *
- 8.0
- Votes *
- 198,246
- Checks
- 44,534
- Favs
- 3,724
- Dislikes
- 263
- Favs/checks
- 8.4% (1:12)
- Favs/dislikes
- 14:1
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In The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman plays a listless college graduate whose very listlessness becomes the motivation for making mistakes, most prominently having an affair with an older woman (that's non-scandalous casting, he and Anne Bancroft only have a 6-year age difference) and then with her daughter. A less wealthy character might not have been able to afford any of this, but the film certainly remains relevant in our age of stay-at-home twentysomethings, and besides, Mike Nichols' direction is so slick, so peculiar, so ARRESTING, that it makes the movie seem entirely modern. I mean, I've seen well over 2000 thousand films in my life, and his direction still had a powerful revelatory effect on me. You know, like you might have felt the first time you saw a Tarantino picture and the camera was doing all sorts of things it shouldn't have been doing. Like that. Makes sense. This is a story about breaking rules. The director ought to break a few himself. 8 years 10 months ago -
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