2. The Graduate
There’s so much immortality here, from that image of Anne Bancroft’s Mrs. Robinson smoking and crossing her legs to the Simon and Garfunkel soundtrack to Hoffman’s Benjamin Braddock asking “Are you trying to seduce me?” (And I haven’t even mentioned anything about the climactic church sequence.) But at the barbed-wire heart of Mike Nichol’s caustic comedy is the actor himself, fusing confusion, ennui and a preternatural understanding that his adult life is doomed even before it begins. It’s the humor in his performance that drew audience in 45 years ago – but it’s the despondence that lingers.
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