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The Graduate"Mrs Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?" muttered young college graduate Benjamin (Hoffman) to middle-aged Mrs Robinson (Bancroft). And thus one of the most famous seduction scenes in the movies was born.
As well as the blistering script, it's the cast that make Mike Nichols' film positively sing. Hoffman was perfectly cast (legend has it that Robert Redford was originally offered the role) as the jaw-droppingly naive Benjamin. Katherine Ross is demure as Elaine, while Bancroft - who is only six years older than Hoffman in real life - got the part of a lifetime, and knew exactly what to do with it (and has not been bettered by the actresses who have attempted the role in the theatre version).
Throw in Simon and Garfunkel's fitting soundtrack and a host of skilled supporting actors - including William Daniels, Walter Brooke (who mutters the immortal advice, "Plastics!") and Murray Hamilton - then sit back and enjoy one of the classic films of the 1960s. The Graduate is devoid of dope, rock music, flower power and politics, but manages to encapsulate the 1960s nevertheless.
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