The Graduate
Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me.
The Graduate Movie Poster
The classic Mike Nichols movie from 1967 starring Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock and Anne Bancroft as Mrs Robinson, about a rich, spoilt American graduate coming home from university and having an affair with his dad’s business partners wife.
Perhaps more famous now for the “Mrs Robinson” song by Simon and Garfunkel, and the temptress lady being a role model for cougars everywhere.
Brief synopsis, graduate (Dustin Hoffman) comes home, is miserable and bored, has an affair with a married woman and falls in love with her daughter leading to obvious problems.
It’s a very well photographed movie with iconic shots, such as Mrs Robinson appearing in the doorway of Bens bedroom seen through a fishtank, Ben standing in front of a bedroom door seen through Mrs Robinsons stockinged leg, and Ben banging on the church window at the finale.
It’s almost like you end up playing “iconic shot bingo” while watching it…there’s one, there’s another, bingo!
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