Anne Bancroft, Brian Avery, Buck Henry

Benjamin Braddock, adrift after college, is seduced by a woman twice his age: icily-assured friend of the family Mrs. Robinson. So its understandable that Benjamin's dream girl is aghast when she find...( read more  read more... )s out he's been sleeping with... her mother.

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PG, 1 hr. 45 min.

Directed by: Mike Nichols

Release Date: December 21, 1967

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DVD Release Date: June 19, 2001

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  • October 15, 2009
    i can't quite put my finger on it but there's something that makes this film wonderful. it could be the alluring older woman, the acting in general or dustin hoffman being in it himself. perhaps it's the coming of age aspect... something to celebrate... hmm, who knows? it's just ...( read more)worthwhile
  • September 21, 2009
    Classic Dustbin Hoffman in Mike Nichols?s best film to date. Anticlimaxes have never been so good!
  • September 1, 2009
    Here's to you Mrs.Robinson.
  • July 24, 2009
    Very sexy and at the same time awkward. The humor comes out more and more with repeated viewing. At least it did for me. Now that I'm done with school that feeling of just floating aimlessly in a pool or just sitting motionless under the surface is truly a scary thing to face ...( read more)in ones future. Sowing wild oats is just a distraction, but when considering what one will do for the rest of one's life, I feel that today as much as then in the 1960s many feel direction-less.
  • April 22, 2009
    Benjamin: Mrs. Robinson, if you don't mind my saying so, this conversation is getting a little strange.

    Even for today, this is one of the most offbeat romantic comedies out there. It is also hilarious. The movie starts almost right away into getting to it's main plot point. Du...( read more)stin Hoffman is being seduced by one of his parents friends...and he succumbs to it.

    Hoffman is great in this role, he is perfectly and realistically awkward in scenes that call for it. The movie uses this angle as a gateway into the real point of this story, Benjamin does not understand what to do with his life after college.

    Mr. Braddock: Ben, what are you doing?
    Benjamin: Well, I would say that I'm just drifting. Here in the pool.
    Mr. Braddock: Why?
    Benjamin: Well, it's very comfortable just to drift here.
    Mr. Braddock: Have you thought about graduate school?
    Benjamin: No.
    Mr. Braddock: Would you mind telling me then what those four years of college were for? What was the point of all that hard work?
    Benjamin: You got me.

    These scenes work because they combine humor with a good sense of realism, as well as the way Hoffman plays it all together.

    Later on, Mrs. Robinson's daughter, Elaine played by the adorable Katherine Ross, enters the scene, and after a perfect scene that is funny and cruel at the same time, they fall in love. This all leads to the odd predicaments of the characters, building up to a finale that is so outrageous, but in the final moments rings true to be kind of...nice.

    The movie is also very stylized, which is good and bad. Despite some of the songs, I was not much of a fan of the repeated use of some of the Simon and Garfunkel songs, but others worked very well.

    The way the camera moves, the cuts and fades are also effective enough to create a sense of tone. Director Mike Nichols does a great job at pioneering something different for American film at the time.

    Good movie, with strong performances from Hoffman and Anne Bancroft as well, supplying a performance that becomes better and better on repeated viewings.

    Mr. Braddock: Don't you think that idea is a little half-baked?
    Benjamin: Oh no, Dad, it's completely baked.
  • November 1, 2009
    dustin hoffman was just perfect for this role, he is like 30 playing a teenager but you wont realise
  • October 30, 2009
    Cougars implemented in stories are always funny. The film displays alienation well, it ends well, and it's still sort of taboo-ish by today's standards.
  • October 29, 2009
    Yes I've only just seen this! Not sure what to make of it really. I couldn't say if I liked it or not. There were too many just staring scenes for my liking. It was ok..I think.
  • October 25, 2009
    Wonderful. If only everyone were as brave.
  • October 25, 2009
    Good for its time I guess

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January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

It is a good topical movie whose time has passed full review

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  • espionage64
    October 14, 2006
    A reali great piece of cinema...sum of the sceens are just amaZin to watch!

    I especially love when Elaine finds out that Ben was with her mother and she turns and sees her in the doorway!

    Generally a bloody great film!

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