Drifting

Rating: 10/10 (12 July 2006)

Dustin Hoffman plays a young man named Benjamin Braddock who has just graduated from college.He is worried about the future.He has no idea what to do.He's only drifting in life.Then along comes Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft).She's the wife of Benjamin's father's business partner (Murray Hamilton).The young Benjamin and Mrs. Robinson end up in an affair.That makes the young Benjamin even more worried.Then he falls for Mrs. Robinson's teenage daughter, Elaine (Katharine Ross).Soon it seems like he has the whole world against him.Mike Nichols' The Graduate (1967) is a masterpiece without a doubt.It is resplendently written.It's based on Charles Webb's novel and the screenplay is written by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry.Mr Henry also acts in the movie.He is the Room Clerk.The whole cast is brilliant.Bancroft, Hoffman, Ross, can't get any better than that.William Daniels and Elizabeth Wilson as Benjamin's parents are excellent.Also the young Richard Dreyfuss is seen there.Nobody is miscast here.And then there is the music.Simon & Garfunkel are responsible for that.Hello darkness my old friend (The Sounds Of Silence), here's to you Mrs. Robinson and so on.Beautiful, beautiful songs that make this movie even a bigger classic than it is.I borrowed the DVD yesterday and Dustin Hoffman talked about his idea for the sequel where he in a way would be Mrs. Robinson.He said how Anne Bancroft would still be there.Sadly Mrs. Bancroft isn't among us anymore.She made a perfect Mrs. Robinson.This movie is perfect.It can make you laugh, it can make you cry.It has everything you can ask for a movie.And maybe even more.