The Graduate (1967)

1968 • 101 minuta

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Dustin Hoffman stars as Benjamin Braddock, as the eponymous graduate, opposite Katherine Ross and Anne Bancroft in this iconic 60s meditation on life, love, and the older woman. Featuring an unforgettable soundtrack by Simon & Garfunkel, The Graduate won a host of international awards including five BAFTAS, five Golden Globes and Mike Nichols an Oscar for Best Director.

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I just want to add to Roger Ward’s review regarding the visual drawback of ‘cropping’’ this film and thus detracting significantly from its visual presentation. In Addison to this, because it’s been mastered from an Australian region 1 DVD, the films plays at an incorrect speed. This is why when you look it up on IMDB, there appears to be a discrepancy in running times with IMDB listing it as a 107 minute running time as opposed to the 101 minute or thereabouts on this site and also YouTube. Normally this wouldn’t matter except that films like this have a famous soundtrack that ends up utterly butchered because of this. The sped up Simon And Garfunkel songs make the band sound like they’re on helium because their pitch characteristics have altered. This seriously ruined my enjoyment of this great classic film. Whoever ends up reading this, take my advice and steer away from this version. If you’ve got a DVD or BLU RAY player, make sure it’s multi regional and try and order the film from the U.S. hope this helps. Milo Martin.

This is a great film that should be in every film lovers collection, but I'm going to knock two stars off this Google Play version of the film due to the cropped presentation made available. The 2:35:1 aspect ratio has been modified to 1:78:1 full frame, and it's clearly noticeable. Composition of most scenes is cramped and it really detracts from the presentation of what really is a fine film.

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