The Graduate

This is a film that I've wanted to see for a while, both because I wanted to see why it was such a big deal in itself and because I like the Simon and Garfunkle tunes associated with it. It was a pretty good film with very strong performances by Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft. I guess you'd say it was a romantic comedy with teeth. 

It's set against the backdrop of wealthy LA families and their kids who are "doing the right thing" going to school and meeting their families expectations. Eventually Hoffman goes all stalker and chases down the girl of his dreams (you'd be hit with a restrainging order doing what he did then now days), as well as breaking from the desires of both sets of parents.

It's interesting to me how strongly this film showed the culteral expectations of the late 60's on top of everything else. I also now understand how my grandmother could like all her awful furnature.

Anyways, it was a very good film, I consider it an A