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The Graduate
1967 romantic comedy drama film by Mike Nichols
For other uses, see The Graduate (disambiguation).
The Graduate is a 1967 American independent[6]romanticcomedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols[7] and written by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham,[8] based on the 1963 novella by Charles Webb, who wrote it shortly after graduating from Williams College. The film tells the story of 21-year-old Benjamin Braddock, a recent college graduate with no well-defined aim in life who is seduced by an older married woman, Mrs. Robinson, but then falls for her daughter, Elaine.
The Graduate was released December 21, 1967, to critical and commercial success, grossing $104.9 million in the United States and Canada, making it the highest-grossing film of 1967 in North America. Adjusted for inflation (as of 2021), the film's gross is $857 million, making it the 22nd highest-grossing film in the United States and Canada, with inflation taken
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Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor. He has been in many movies.
Early life
[change | change source]Hoffman was born in Los Angeles, California. He is the younger son of Lillian, a jazzpianist, and Harry Hoffman, who worked as a propsupervisor/set decorator at Columbia Pictures before becoming a furnituresalesman.[1][2] His brother, Ronald, is a lawyer and economist. Hoffman's family was Jewish, although he was not brought up religious.[3] After he married his second wife, he started to observe Judaism more.[4] His family was also from Yviv in what is now Ukraine.[5][6][7][8][9] He graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955.
Dustin Hoffman's movies
[change | change source]Hoffman starred in Hook, The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, Marathon Man, All the President's Men, Kramer vs. Kramer, Tootsie, Stranger than Fiction, Mee