The Graduate (1967) Reviews & Ratings

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The Graduate reviews

The Graduate holds a 7.6/10 average from 3,818 TMDB ratings.

Dustin Hoffman is great in this as the impressionable twenty-one year old "Ben" who falls prey to the wiles of the woman immortalised by Simon & Garfunkel. "Mrs Robinson" (Anne Bancroft) is married to the husband of his father's business partner. She is sexy, alluring, sophisticated - and he, well he is just young, naive and horny. Their assignations proceed with few problems but in parallel, his own family are tryi…
— CinemaSerf (7/10)

**A good example of a film that was extremely notable in its time, but that is not very relevant today.** This film is considered by some to be one of the best that US cinema has given us. It is also the film that catapulted to fame the discreet Dustin Hoffman, one of the most consistent and solid actors of his generation. There is no doubt that he deserved the status, in this and other films that followed. However,…
— Filipe Manuel Neto (4/10)

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.

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