Feels as sly, modern and bracing as it must have in 1967.

Rating: 10/10 (26 August 2019)

Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft and Katharine Ross star in Mike Nichols' landmark movie of the late 1960s based on Charles Webb's novel perfectly adapted for the silver screen by Buck Henry (who plays a desk clerk) and Calder Willingham. Hoffman rises to stardom as an ultra-naive college graduate, who has a sexual fling with his neighbor's wife (Bancroft), and then later, he falls in love with her daughter (Ross). Featuring Simon and Garfunkel's delightfully immortal musical score and songs, "Here's to You, Mrs. Robinson" and "The Sound of Silence". Mike Nichols won the Academy Award as Best Director. Also starring Murray Hamilton, Elizabeth Wilson, Walter Brooke, Alice Ghostley, Norman Fell, William Daniels, Brian Avery, Marion Lorne, Elisabeth Fraser, Richard Dreyfuss & Harry Holcombe.