Sorry to have missed the showing of “The Graduate” last Sunday at Tampa Theatre. It’s now–say what?–50 years old. It’s my all-time favorite movie. A sure sign of a movie’s greatness: Does it still work across the generational years–and even on the small screen? Yes. It’s universal–in so many “dramedy” ways.
And, BTW, Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman)–the boyish, coming-of-age graduate–was 30 years old in 1967. The eponymous seductress “Mrs. Robinson” (Anne Bancroft) was 36. And it–koo, koo, ka-choo–worked. And it still resonates.
Indeed. “Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you.”