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Robinson speaks to Ben, the shot beginning in close-up only to zoom out and out and out to reveal that she's in a corner far away from Ben, leaving her suddenly looking very small and vulnerable.

The adults in the film are all called Mr or Mrs while the young people go by their first names, emphasizing the Generation Gap.

Robinson sharing their silent hotel bed, intercut with Ben at home in his own bedroom and floating in his swimming pool, still retains the pristine power which exemplifies why film lovers love film.

The Graduate 1967 Screenplay: Calder Willingham, Buck Henry, Based on the Novel by Charles Web Directed by Mike Nichols Principle Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katherine Ross, William Daniels, Murray Hamilton, Elizabeth Wilson, Buck Henry.

The film starts off with Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) traveling back to his home to attend a graduation party his parents and relatives have prepared.

Hoffman plays Benjamin Braddock, a recent college graduate who has returned home with no real goals or aspirations and, as it turns out, doesn't have really time to think about such matters as he tentatively begins an affair with the much older wife of one of his parents friends, a Mrs.