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www.boxoffice.com - : Described as a ''satire on the Los Angelesization of the world,'' Embassy's ''The Graduate'' is essentially a sex comedy concerned with an incredibly naive college graduate, who receives his sexual matriculation with the wife of his parents' best friend, only to fall in love with the woman's daughter. If carefully sold, the Lawrence Turman-Mike Nichols co-production could be Joseph E. Levine's most popular entry in a long time. As Nichols' second directorial chore, the film resembles a series of cinematic Mike Nichols-Elaine May sketches in the earlier part, slowly moving toward a fantastic and heart-rending finale, the likes of which should have audiences jumping with joy, laughter and tears. more...
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : ''The Graduate,'' the funniest American comedy of the year, is inspired by the free spirit which the young British directors have brought into their movies. It is funny, not because of sight gags and punch lines and other tired rubbish, but because it has a point of view. That is to say, it is against something. Comedy is naturally subversive, no matter what Doris Day thinks. more...
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www.salon.com - : For viewers who remember it as part of their upbringing, ''The Graduate'' presents an entirely different problem. Now that it's hit its 30th birthday, the film throws our '60s shortsightedness in our face. How sheepish one feels, realizing the movie is no work of genius. In fact, what was once an all-important signpost to adulthood is really little more than a simple romantic comedy whose ''countercultural'' message, insofar as it has one, is decidedly retrograde. more...
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