The Graduate
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The Graduate is a 1967 film about a young and talented college graduate who embarks on an affair with the wife of his father's business partner. Along the way, he becomes increasingly disillusioned with the adult world and the future his parents have planned for him, and finds himself falling for his lover's daughter.
- Directed by Mike Nichols. Written by Charles Webb, Calder Willingham and Buck Henry.
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[edit] Mr. Robinson
- I'll bet you're, you're quite a ladies man...You look to me like the kind of guy who has to fight 'em off. [To Mrs. Robinson] Now doesn't he look to you like the kind of guy who has to fight 'em off?
[edit] Dialogue
- Benjamin: I'm just...
- Mr. Braddock: ...worried?
- Benjamin: Well...
- Mr. Braddock: About what?
- Benjamin: I guess about my future.
- Mr. Braddock: What about it?
- Benjamin: I don't know. I want it to be...
- Mr. Braddock: ...to be what?
- Benjamin: ...Different.
- Mr. McGuire: I want to say one word to you. Just one word.
- Benjamin: Yes, sir.
- Mr. McGuire: Are you listening?
- Benjamin: Yes, I am.
- Mr. McGuire: Plastics.
- Benjamin: Exactly how do you mean?
- Mr. McGuire: There's a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it?
- Note: the bolded line is ranked #42 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.
- Benjamin: Mrs. Robinson, if you don't mind my saying so, this conversation is getting a little strange. Now, I'm sure that Mr. Robinson will be here any minute now and -
- Mrs. Robinson: No.
- Benjamin: What?
- Mrs. Robinson: My husband will be back quite late. He should be gone for several hours.
- Benjamin: Oh my God.
- Benjamin: For God's sake, Mrs. Robinson, here we are, you've got me into your house. You give me a drink. You put on music, now you start opening up your personal life to me and tell me your husband won't be home for hours.
- Mrs. Robinson: So?
- Benjamin: Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... Aren't you?
- Mrs. Robinson: Well, no. I hadn't thought of it. I feel very flattered.
- Benjamin: Mrs. Robinson. Will you forgive me for what I just said?
- Note: the bolded line is ranked #63 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.
- Mrs. Robinson: Do you find me undesirable?
- Benjamin: Oh, no, Mrs. Robinson. I think, I think you're the most attractive of all my parents' friends.
- Mr. Braddock: Ben, what are you doing?
- Benjamin: Well, I would say that I'm just drifting. Here in the pool.
- Mr. Braddock: Why?
- Benjamin: Well, it's very comfortable just to drift here.
- Mr. Braddock: Have you thought about graduate school?
- Benjamin: No.
- Mr. Braddock: Would you mind telling me then what those four years of college were for? What was the point of all that hard work?
- Benjamin: You got me.
- Elaine: Why don't you drag me off if you want to marry me so much?
- Benjamin: Why don't I just drag you off? All right, I will. Right after we get the blood tests...
- Benjamin: Listen to me. What happened between Mrs. Robinson and me was nothing. It didn't mean anything. We might just as well have been shaking hands.
- Mr. Robinson: Shaking hands? Well, that's not saying much for my wife, is it?
[edit] Cast
- Dustin Hoffman — Benjamin Braddock
- Anne Bancroft — Mrs. Robinson
- Katharine Ross — Elaine Robinson
- William Daniels — Mr. Braddock
- Murray Hamilton — Mr. Robinson
- Elizabeth Wilson — Mrs. Braddock
- Buck Henry — Desk Clerk
- Walter Brooke — Mr. McGuire
- Norman Fell - Mr. McCleery
[edit] External links
- The Graduate quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- The Graduate at Rotten Tomatoes
- The Graduate at Filmsite.org
