"Remember me to one who lives there, she once was a true love of mine."

Rating: 8/10 (31 May 2010)

My son had to watch The Graduate for a high school film class-interestingly enough-the only comedy or film where no one dies or gets killed. After we watched and discussed it I found my wife's copy of the novel on our bookshelf-which I had never read. In the course of the next 3 hours I read the novel and found to my amazement that Charles Webb's dialogue was lifted verbatim from the book to the novel; and here I had always thought Buck Henry had written the cleverly paced and frustratingly banal words that are devastating for Benjamin to hear. Okay-Buck did come up with the "Plastics!" and " are you here for an affair?" lines; as well the sight gags of the smoke Ann Bancroft exhales after the first kiss and the car skidding on the sidewalk at the mention of the Taft Hotel-and of course the 3 main Paul Simon-aka "Mr. Alienation"-songs used in the film. I remember seeing the film the first time and telling my Buds at school they had to see it after Christmas break. and Katherine Ross-the epitome of 60's middle class student beauty.