The Graduate

The wife dragged me to that one in the theaters. I can't remember what it was called. Didn't care for it at all. Some funny moments, but some that just made me cringe.

 

Ms. Ross was equally beautiful in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, as well.

She and Julie Christie were sights to behold in the early 1970s.

 

Let me guess .... Kevin Costner was on the screen at the cringing times?

 

Anne Bancroft was 37 when she played Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate. Jennifer Aniston is 37 now.

 

"Are you here for the affair?"

 

I believe the title of the Aniston/Costner update is "Rumor has it".

 

One of my Top 5 movies of all time. I saw it when I was finishing my degree and already out of school working full-time in the business. For a young man who wasn't sure what the hell he wanted to do with his life, this movie put me at peace. I was Ben laying in the pool getting hammered, except I didn't hit the pool until after noon when I made deadline for the PM daily I was working for.
I also wrote a thesis paper on this movie for a fiction in writing/film class I took to fill out an elective and aced it. The prof even had me bring in the movie and explain my theories on it as we watched.
The ambiguous ending is what makes this movie great because when you are in that position, nothing in life is guaranteed and anything can go anyway.
It is a classic.

Also, my grandfather gave me my Graduate quote when I was a freshman ... "Waste Management" was his two-word advice for me.

 

goodness gracious. katherine ross is 66. she's been married to sam elliott for 22 years.

wow. was she drop-dead gorgeous in "butch and sundance." 8) 8) 8)

 

For someone 25 or 26 when he first saw The Graduate, the idea of sleeping with your girlfriend's mother was pretty revolutionary. The 28-year-old teacher who screws 14-year-old boys hadn't been invented yet.

 

Caught it last night, too right at the beginning. Watched for over an hour before having to sleep.

"Mrs. Robinson you're trying to seduce me. . . . Aren't you?"

Aboslutely marvelous movie (And gosh she was ONLY 37. Looked, uh, much more mature.

 

That was Dustin Hoffman just starting to hit his stride. It's sad that he's kinda mailing it in lately. Stranger Than Fiction was a very basic performance by him.