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That was an excellent one.

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

The acting in this movie is really good.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

If we look closely every major character has a story of stupid decisions and despair all the while having no idea of what's happening in their life. There is actually not even a single character in here that does anything sensible in here, yet they are completely believable since these are the kind of people you actually see around you in the world although not used as archetypes in films. With all of its amazing cinematography, match cuts and the use of some incredible songs the storytelling itself proceeds fabulously.

A movie about the coming of age, and a disenchanted college graduate wondering about his future and trying to escape the predestined path his parents want him to follow. The movie shows his idle life through in his eyes lost in his thoughts, in the cross fading, the close-up shots, and Simon and Garfunkel songs. The hesitating young man becomes a self-confident man after having an affair with a mature woman. When he falls in love with her daughter, the life he seeks eventually becomes obvious to him.

Anne Bancroft, the woman with whom many men had sexual fantasies after watching "The Graduate". And her first role was as a star of the kindergarten play as Mama Bear in "The Three Little Bears"... After 50 years, the film is just as fresh and the music of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel is gorgeous. Best role for Dustin Hoffman! The best part in which he is him, he plays himself. Because in "Rain Man" and in "Midnight Cowboy" he had to be someone else, he played handicapped characters(exceptionally) I also liked him very much in "Marathon Man" (where, Laurence Olivier, in the role of Szell is absolutely fantastic...) Katharine Ross was young and beautiful too!

I think I have underestimated how much I like this film, at least the first hour of it. I have seen it a few times and knew I liked it, but I was pleasantly surprised by how genuinely funny it is. That said, I don't really like the last act, and that's largely due to the fact that Mrs. Robinson feels like the real emotional center of this film, but she's reduced to a one dimensional villain during the final act. While Benjamin comes off as a fool, and Elaine is barely a character, Mrs. Robinson is funny, clever and kind of sad ... a very engaging character. The film doesn't really survive her departure.