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Find the young Dustin Hoffman in this classic of new cinema and New Hollywood via this superb Poster of the Film The Graduate!
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Description of this The Winner Film Poster
The Graduate is a 1967 American fiction film directed by Mike Nichols and based on the novel of the same name by Charles Webb. It tells how Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), a university graduate, successively enters into two "forbidden" relationships: first with a married woman, then with his daughter.
The film grossed over $100 million worldwide and earned Mike Nichols the Academy Award for Best Director in 1968. Additionally, he was recognized with many other awards. The Winner was entered into the National Film Registry in 1996 and ranked 7th in the American Film Institute's ranking of best American films in 1998.
The film score by Simon & Garfunkel was released as the soundtrack album The Graduate and reached number one on the US Albums Chart in April 1968. The track Mrs. Robinson featured in it became a worldwide hit and is one of the most popular of the duo.
Shortly before his 21st birthday and with a brilliant university degree in his pocket, Benjamin Braddock returns to his family home in Southern California. He doesn't yet know what he's going to do in the future. This is particularly why he would prefer to be left alone rather than being shown off to his parents' friends at "his" party. Mrs. Robinson, who is present without her husband, an associate of Mr. Braddock, asks Benjamin to take her home.
There she attempts to seduce him, which he objects to and which is ultimately foiled by Mr. Robinson's premature return. Ironically, it is precisely he who advises Benjamin to take advantage of his youth and use his power of attraction on women. A few days later, Benjamin decides to accept Mrs. Robinson's offer.
However, he only overcomes his uncertainty when she asks him if it is his “first time” and if he is afraid of “failing”. The affair lasting several weeks between them remained purely sexual. Benjamin's first attempt to create greater intimacy through conversation ends in an argument and near breakup, caused by Mrs. Robinson's insistence that he promise never to date her daughter Elaine.
Worried about his inactivity and his nighttime outings, this is what Benjamin's parents ask him several times - until he gives in. In order to once and for all put Elaine off being with him, he proves inaccessible and drags her to a strip club. But he goes too far: she is humiliated and bursts into tears. He justifies himself, comforts her, kisses her and falls in love. The same evening, he admitted to her that he had had a relationship with a married woman.
Mrs. Robinson crashes their meeting planned for the next day; she threatens Benjamin to confront Elaine with the truth if necessary. He decides to get ahead of her, at the cost of breaking up with Elaine. When she returned to Berkeley shortly after to continue her studies, he decided to follow her.
Elaine initially rejects him and takes refuge in the arms of another suitor - Carl Smith, a medical student -, but then she goes to find Benjamin in turn and learns that his mother lied to her when she claimed to have been raped by Benjamin. The two quickly become closer, Benjamin even insists that the marriage take place quickly.
But the Robinsons then intervene forcefully by wanting to marry their daughter to Carl Smith. Elaine resigns herself and leaves Benjamin a farewell letter. In the finale, it's about finding out where this wedding will take place and arriving in time to prevent it. When he arrives, after more than twelve hours of odyssey, the marriage has just been celebrated and the couple kisses.
His desperate appearance on the glass gallery of the church nevertheless changes everything: to "It's too late!" from her mother, Elaine responds with a “Not for me!” and overflows towards Benjamin. A wooden cross serves as a weapon and lock on the church door. They escape in a scheduled bus; as the bus drives off, the euphoria of the successful escape slowly fades from their faces.
