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Date Movie: "The Graduate"

by Ron Zvagelsky

The GraduateThe Graduate (1967 - DRAMA - Dustin Hoffman & Anne Bancroft): Listed at #7 on AFI’s prestigious Top 100 films of all time, The Graduate depicts the life of Benjamin Braddock (Hoffman), a twenty-something college graduate who has affair with the wife of his father’s business partner – Mrs. Robinson (Bancroft). The affair eventually ends and we soon learn that Benjamin has fallen in love with Mrs. Robinson’s daughter – Elaine. Will Benjamin and Elaine live happily ever after or will his volatile affair with Mrs. Robinson come back to haunt him?