Pleasantly surprised by a supposed "classic"

Rating: 7/10 (2 January 2000)

I've wasted far too much time watching movies that are supposed to be classics (Citizen Kane, 2001, Pulp Fiction, etc.), so with much trepidation I rented The Graduate. I was pleasantly surprised, however. Great performances all around, the story was great, and I particularly liked how no character was especially likeable. They were all pretty nasty or shallow in their own way. It was a pretty accurate representation of the times, it seems (I was born several years after it was released, so I can't say for sure).
At any rate, it works on many levels. I can't say if it belongs in the API top 10, but it's certainly more worthy than the films I listed above.
And the ending is great - the happy ending which isn't!