The Graduate
screenplay by Buck Henry '52Dustin Hoffman's breakout performance, the Simon & Garfunkel soundtrack and highly quotable script make this clever 1967 comedy one of the most beloved American films of all time.
Dartmouth Film Society 75th
Benjamin Braddock (Hoffman) has just finished college and is already lost in a sea of confusion. Angsty and directionless as only a recent grad can be, he finds himself falling into a sexual entanglement with a friend of his parents', the indomitable Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), before turning his attention to her college-age daughter (Katharine Ross).
Visually imaginative and impeccably acted, with a clever, endlessly quotable script by Buck Henry '52 (based on the novel by Charles Webb) and Mike Nichols' Oscar-winning direction, The Graduate had the kind of cultural impact that comes along only once in a generation.
D: Mike Nichols, US, 1967, 1h46m
Buck Henry (Zuckerman) '52, a comic actor and screenwriter, was born on December 9, 1930, in New York City. He attended the Choate School in Connecticut and graduated from Dartmouth with an English degree. Buck was an editor of The Dartmouth, wrote for the Jack-O-Lantern, and was active in theater and film. He also was featured in the promotional film, My First Week at Dartmouth, even before he started College. From 1952 to 1954 Buck served in the U.S. Army. He wrote screenplays for more than a dozen movies, acted in at least 40 films, and in the 1960s earned writing credits for a string of TV comedy series. His work garnered him three Emmy nominations, and he earned the award in 1967 for his writing collaboration on the TV show, Get Smart. Buck's big break in the film industry was with his screenplay for The Graduate. The script earned him his first Academy Award nomination for best-adapted screenplay (1967). He made his directorial debut with Heaven Can Wait, for which he was nominated for best director (1978) with codirector Warren Beatty. In the late 1970s Henry appeared semi-regularly on NBC's Saturday Night Live, hosting 10 times.
Dartmouth Film Society 75th
Dartmouth Film Society 75th
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