A great & fascinating film

Rating: Null/10 (24 April 2010)

"The Graduate" is not a comedy per se, regardless that it's brain trust of Director Mike Nichols & Screenwriter Buck Henry are from the world of comedy - and most of it totally zany comedy, at that. Zany, it isn't.
Yes, it has occasional comic overtones and light amusing overtones; and as Benjamin, Dustin Hoffman plays the part of the young, inexperienced graduate initially in a haltingly often amusing manner, this film is a drama, not a comedy.
Some reviewers here go so far as to call it "hilarious." It's not hilarious. If I were Mike Nichols & Buck Henry I'd be ticked at anyone who thinks of it that way.
A great film? Yes. An iconic '60s classic? Yes. A comedy? Well, no.