Mike Nichols’ classic California movie The Graduate turns 50 this year, and Studiocanal has given it the 4K restoration treatment, the new version of the film playing for two weeks at BFI Southbank in London as part of its Dustin Hoffman season.
Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) has just finished college and is already lost in a sea of confusion as he wonders what to do with his life.
That liaison is soon complicated by Benjamin’s infatuation with her college-age daughter Elaine (Katharine Ross).
He returns to his parents’ luxurious Beverly Hills home, where he idles away the summer floating in the pool and brooding in silence.