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THE GRADUATE
November 26, 2016  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 12:45 a.m. ET

 

This movie, from 1967, resulted in Dustin Hoffman’s first Oscar nomination as Best Actor – and is pretty much a perfect movie. Perfect performances (by Hoffman, Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Robinson, and Katharine Ross as her daughter), perfect music (written by Paul Simon, performed by Simon & Garfunkel), perfect direction (by Mike Nichols), and perfectly ambigious ending. That’s three cinematic triumphs for Hoffman, shown on the same night – and this tremendous triple feature doesn’t even make room for Midnight Cowboy, Little Big Man, All the President’s Men, Marathon Man or Kramer vs. Kramer…

 
 
 
 
 
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