A Great Comedy

Rating: 10/10 (17 March 2001)

"The Graduate" is a delight, a black comic masterpiece. I watched it again recently, after not having seen it in many years. It has lost none of its charm. Dustin Hoffman is brilliant as Benjamin and Anne Bancroft's comic timing and dramatic ability as Mrs. Robinson were never better. Bancroft's Oscar was well deserved. Was the ending happy and optimistic or sad and cynical? I still can't decide.