My favorite out of about 2,000 movies.

Rating: 10/10 (26 April 2004)

Coming of age, what to do with your life, what is an affair, how does it make you feel, how do you get the girl - after sleeping with her mother, and just why is the next big thing -- "Plastics"?? This movie answers all of these questions, and more, along with having the best folk soundtrack in the history of movie-making (tracks from 3 Simon & Garfunkel records plus a custom title track written by Simon & Garfunkel). Dustin Hoffman plays a mixed up "track star" just graduated from college and looking for something to do with his life, when suddenly, at his graduation party, the wife of a close family friend locks herself in a room with Dustin and throws herself at him.
This is the film that launched Dustin Hoffman's career.
Look for a 9-word cameo by Richard Dreyfus 5 minutes from the end.
Good to watch on a slow-mo VCR or DVD to see if Anne Bancroft really was topless or whether something else is flashed at Dustin while locked in the room !