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THE GRADUATE
December 6, 2014  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 10:30 p.m. ET

 

This 1967 movie had a huge impact on me when I first saw it as a teenager, and I still see it as a near-perfect film – maybe a perfect one – about youth, alienation, ennui and the generation gap. I love the Simon & Garfunkel music, too, especially the guitar bits Paul Simon composed and performed expressly for the film score (as at the gas station, on the way to the wedding). And Nichols is so subtle as a director that sometimes it takes repeated viewings to realize that the film’s happy ending, when you watch closely, isn’t so happy after all. Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross star.

 
 
 
 
 
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