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Old 02-27-2013, 06:08 PM   #12979 (permalink)
midnight rain
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Saw this was on Netflix and I hadn't seen it in years so I figured I'd revisit it. Still a great movie with good performances all around, especially from Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman. Many priceless laugh out loud scenes as well, I can totally relate to Benjamin Braddock in feeling unmotivated and directionless in life. The one complaint I had with the movie, if you could call it one, was how impassive Elaine was about get married to the pipe-smoking frat boy, but maybe it wasn't out of the ordinary in the '60s to begrudgingly get married? I don't know if that would qualify as a plot hole or not. Interestingly Ebert revisited the movie 30 years after his original review with a modified one saying it hadn't aged well. Coming from someone who was born almost 25 years after it's release, I can assure him that it has aged well. The themes are still very relatable and the soundtrack is still one of the all time greatest

Love this whole scene:

The Graduate 1967 - YouTube
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