Another stink-bomb artifact from the "swinging sixties"

Rating: 1/10 (4 January 2010)

This turkey is one more in the bill of particulars that illegal drug use was hitting its all-time high in Hollywood. How else to explain how bad it is, how many dramatic cheap shots, the way it telegraphs its sanctimonious "insight" into contemporary America of that time. With absolutely leaden direction by Mike Nichols---a former stand-up comic who specialized in smug superiority which he carried over to his next job description. His former partner in stand-up, as well as one of his exes, dealt in the same shoddy goods---Elaine May. Their rap-sheets read like indictments. Here we have Dustin Hoffman miscast as a "sensitive" guy---Dustin Hoffman is miscast every time he works: All the acting ability of a sea anemone. This thing falls on its face and DIES when Dustin Sensitive turns down Mrs. Robinson, played by the blow-torch HOT Anne Bancroft, in favor of-- -drum roll, please---Katherine Ross. WTF ??? With music by, wait for it now, Simon & Garfunkel !!! And not just a little bit of it: it is ubiquitous, like some sort of skin disease. If this sounds good to you, then roll one, plug in the lava lamp, don your "granny glasses" and Love Beads, and have at it !!!