After Benjamin explains what really happened and apologizes, Elaine forgives him and they rekindle their relationship. Elaine is aghast because her mother told her that Benjamin raped her when she was drunk. Elaine is so upset that she refuses to see Benjamin again and returns to school at Berkeley.īenjamin follows her to Berkeley hoping to regain her affections. To thwart this, Benjamin reveals to Elaine that the married woman is her mother. Robinson threatens to tell Elaine about their affair. To prevent Benjamin from dating Elaine, Mrs. Benjamin swears that the affair is over and makes plans for another date with Elaine for the following day. Gladstone", Elaine deduces that Benjamin is having an affair with a married woman.
After they visit the Taft Hotel for a late-night drink and the staff greet Benjamin as "Mr. They eat at a drive-in restaurant, where they bond over their shared uncertainty about their future plans. She flees the club in tears, but Benjamin, feeling remorseful, runs out after her, apologizes, and kisses her. Robinson is, Benjamin attempts to sabotage his date by ignoring Elaine, driving recklessly, and taking her to a strip club. Benjamin gives in and reluctantly takes Elaine on a date. However, Benjamin's parents, unaware of the affair, are eager for their son to date Elaine and relentlessly pester him to ask her out, as does Mr. When Benjamin jokingly suggests that he date Elaine, Mrs. Robinson reveals that her loveless marriage resulted when she accidentally became pregnant with her daughter, Elaine. Gladstone".īenjamin spends the summer relaxing in his parents' pool by day and meeting Mrs. Robinson to the Taft Hotel, where he registers under the pseudonym "Mr. He initially resists her advances, but after his parents continue to make him feel isolated and desperate for any kind of connection, he invites Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father's law partner, insists that he drive her home. He cringes as his parents deliver accolades during his graduation party and retreats to his bedroom until Mrs. It is ranked by the American Film Institute as the 17th greatest American film of all time.Īfter earning his bachelor's degree from an East Coast college, Benjamin Braddock returns to his parents' Pasadena, California home. National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 1996, The Graduate was selected for preservation in the U.S. It received seven nominations at the 40th Academy Awards including for the Best Picture and won Best Director. Adjusted for inflation (as of 2021), the film's gross is $857 million, making it the 23rd highest-ever grossing film in North America with inflation taken into account.
The Graduate was released on December 21, 1967, to critical and commercial success, grossing $104.9 million, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1967 worldwide. Robinson ( Anne Bancroft), and then becomes obsessed with her daughter Elaine ( Katharine Ross). The film tells the story of 21-year-old Benjamin Braddock ( Dustin Hoffman), a recent college graduate with no well-defined aim in life, who is seduced by an older married woman, Mrs. The Graduate is a 1967 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols and written by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham, based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Charles Webb, who wrote it shortly after graduating from Williams College.
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