The Graduate

Comment/Synopsis
Dustin Hoffman is a sexually naive graduate who is seduced by Anne Bancroft as the sexually bored middle aged lady, who is the wife of his fathers business partner. However he also falls in love with her daughter (Katherine Ross). Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft give very good performances, especially the scene in the hotel bedroom. The film is backed up with a memorable sound track from Paul Simon and Art Garfunkle that sets the background for many of the scenes in the film. In some ways the film is a product of its time and the scene as he first goes to the hotel shows how the world has changed but in other ways people and their desires have not changed. This film was Dustin Hoffman's big break into films. The film plays on middle class social anxieties and particularly the dissatisfaction of both Hoffman's and Bancroft's characters. One of the first films to use a contemporary sound track. The film was rejected by the major studios went on to be one of the most profitiable films made.