Actors: Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman,
Katharine Ross, William Daniels, Murray Hamilton, Elizabeth Wilson, Buck Henry
Rating: 9 out of 10, Quite possibly
one of the best movies ever made. I never appreciated Nichols’ camera work until
watching this again after many years. It’s a perfect insight into the waning
years of the 1960s as a recent college graduate returns to his upper middle class
home and languishes with no plan or prospects. He’s soon drawn into an affair
with the wife of his father’s business partner. This has some of the funniest
lines ever as Dustin Hoffman awkwardly fights well above his weight with Anne Bancroft
as the immortal Mrs. Robinson. The movie takes a serious turn when Hoffman
falls in love with his lover’s daughter and begins a hopeless quest to win her
over. The final church scene with the swinging cross and doubt filled bus ride
are eloquent comments on the times it portrays.
MVP: Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Robinson,
evil and sexy
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