Graduate

Pros: Bancroft, Simon & Garfunkel's greatest hits.
Cons: Cheesy camera angles, Simon and Garfunkel soundtrack

The Graduate (1967)

Mike Nichols’ fun romp thru the 60s hasn’t aged well. It made a huge splash when it was released catapulting Dustin Hoffman to stardom, but the issues addressed now appear dated. Nevertheless, there are some good things...

Pros: Acting, direction, cinematography, Simon and Garfunkel soundtrack, script
Cons: NADA!

I think the film, The Graduate, will forever be remembered as the film that brought Dustin Hoffman into stardom. Although he has a fair number of films under his belt now, his first major acting role was in this film. The Graduate is...

Pros: The Graduate is funny, interesting and wrong.
Cons: None

Ben: Look, maybe we could do something else together. Mrs. Robinson, would you like to go to a movie? Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Robinson Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock Katharine Ross as Elaine Robinson The Graduate 1967 The ...

Pros: Hoffman is hilarious
Cons: quite bizarre

After years of being a die-hard Simon and Garfunkel fan who had not seen The Graduate, I decided that the time had come to rectify the situation. I rented this movie the day after I saw Art Garfunkel in concert, and now I can finally feel like my...

Pros: Hilarious script and performances, remarkably direction
Cons: Too few to mention

Mike Nichols' pitch perfect coming-of-age comedy is as relevant to society today as it was thirty years ago. The hilarious, poignant, symbolic script that criticizes, in its way, everything from the wealthy to the church, changed the way comedies...

Pros: Story, meaning, characters, performances, humor, dialogue, direction, rebellion.
Cons: S&G does play a bit too often.

For a movie so commonly labeled a classic, The Graduate has its fair share of haters. "Katherine Ross is just playing her part," the miscreants say. "The ending is melodramatic. Mrs. Robinson is the only cool character. Reprises of the same Simon ...

Pros: Direction, script, humor, acting, and the Simon and Garfunkel soundtrack.
Cons: None.

In his 1997 re-review of THE GRADUATE, Roger Ebert wrote that the movie is ”about a young man of limited interest, who gets a chance to sleep with the ranking babe in his neighborhood, and throws it away in order to marry her dorky daughter.” A ...

Pros: Anne Barncroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katherine Ross, Funny, Timeless
Cons: I haven't found any

The Graduate was made in 1967, the same year I was born, so I consider it is of particularly fine vintage. I had watched this film a number of times in the past, but noticed that it had not been on recently. When I saw it for sale on Amazon for only £ ...

Pros: Simon and Garfunkel, Anne Bancroft
Cons: The plot, Dustin Hoffman and Elaine

I picked up a copy of "The Graduate" at the library a few days ago. It's one of those movies that a person feels compelled to watch, mainly because everyone in the world seems to have made up their mind that this is one of the best...

Pros: An interesting plot, great acting, great Simon & Garfunkel music, great shots
Cons: Weak character development

My first viewing of The Graduate was quite pleasant and I enjoyed it very much. In fact, it became one of my favorite movies. I noted that The Graduate did have flaws but when a film is a crowd pleaser, flaws tend to go ignored. In my second viewing of ...

Pros: Honest, Brilliant Acting(D.H/A.B) and Directing, Wonderful Soundtrack
Cons: Can seem a bit extended, slow, Katharine Ross's one-dimensional blandness

Review of the Graduate Summary: Benjamin Braddock, recent graduate of a prestigious east coast ...

Pros: cast, script, direction, soundtrack
Cons: characters, story

"The Graduate" is a good comedy that has generally been over-rated over the years. While the film launched Dustin Hoffman's career, it is by no means his best film (my bets are on "Little Big Man"). Most of the humor works, which...

Pros: interesting story
Cons: some strange issues of sex

When I first saw this film, I was a bit confused. I felt uncertain as to what would happen to the two young adults at the end of the film. As I paid more attention to the dialogue, music and camera work, I realized that these factors played a major part...

Pros: very poetic film, easy to see why Dustin Hoffman became a star
Cons: a couple of songs repeat once too often

At first director Mike Nichols and producer Lawrence Turman wanted a muscular leading man, someone you'd expect to play a young man having an affair with an older married woman. After many auditions and a lot of script rewrites, it became glaringly...

Pros: Story, soundtrack, performances by Hoffman and Bankroft
Cons: the overusage of songs on the soundtrack

It's easy to see the cultural impact 1967's "The Graduate" has left. From "Wayne's World" to The Simpsons, many people have bitten and used one of the most famous movie endings ever. This comedy/drama, based on the Charles Webb novel,...