The year 1967 to the year 2006

Rating: Null/10 (23 July 2006)

I watched the Graduate for the first time in 1974 and fell in love with it. I think the movie juxtaposed my life and how I was trying to determine where I was headed. I will never forget April 1974 in regards to this movie. In 1967, this movie was very controversial but by todays (2006) standards, it is more like 50's television. I feel all the characters did a fine job in acting and it introduced some actors (Richard Dryfuss, Mike Farrel, Kevin tighe) who later would go on to big time fame in television and film. This movie seemed to show the death of American innocence and the move into the pivotal sixties with all the rioting and changes to come. I don't feel any of this was the ostensible intentions of either writer Charles Webb or director Mike Nichols, but more simply how a young man made some bad decisions and then learning to get over on the system... Sit back and enjoy it, and don't take it seriously... A good friend of mine stated that Elaine and Ben would have been divorced six months down the road anyway...