great uncomfortable giggles

Rating: 8/10 (6 December 2014)

Ben Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) returns home to Pasadena, California after recently graduating college. His parents throw him a party but he rather be alone contemplating his future. He drives Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft) home which leads to an affair while he falls for her daughter Elaine (Katharine Ross).
Director Mike Nichols captures perfectly the daunting emptiness of impending future. Dustin Hoffman's performance is pitch perfect. He isn't the traditional leading man. He is flustered, lost and then angry. Anne Bancroft is a great cougar. There is an uncomfortableness to it all. Even the resolution isn't actually settled in the end. The brilliance of this movie is the shaky nature of everything that puts the audience on edge. It is loads of funny nervous giggles. Oh and there are the great Simon & Garfunkel songs.