A gripping story about a boy seeking the true love.

Rating: Null/10 (9 August 1999)

Dustin Hoffman plays a young naïve boy, turning 21. After a party he drives one of his family's friends, a middle aged woman played by Anne Bancroft, home. Telling him that she is afraid of the dark she "forces" him to follow inside the house. Because her husband isn´t coming home for hours she wants Hoffman to stay. In some way she manages to get Hoffman in their bedroom, she is undressed and wants to have sex with the young Hoffman. Hoffman denies of course. Later in the film they will have sex. Bancroft is living in a marriage absent of sex and feeling attached to Hoffman. He, i think, to get over his shyness and his virginity.
Hoffman's family, not knowing anything, thinks that he should get out with the daughter (of whose mother he has had sex with..) and they arrange a date. Hoffman and the daughter fall in love...
The film made Dustin Hoffman and Katharine Ross (who plays the daughter) overnight stars. The movie earned an Oscar for Mike Nichols direction, and 5 other nominations including Best Picture. Simon & Garfunkel sing the soundtrack which includes many wonderful songs like The Sound of silence, Scarborough fair and Mrs. Robinson.
This is a gripping story about a boy seeking the true love. Because this is a comedy, not a tragedy, he will of course find his love. But to come to that happy ending you have to go through a story with betrayal, loneliness, hate and anger. And it's sure worth to do that.