Film: The Graduate (1967)
Showing: Boxing Day, 12.40am, ITV1
Why It’s A Must-See: Stone cold classics can’t really be argued against in any sane way, and this epoch-defining satire rocks up somewhere near the top of almost any serious all-time list you care to mention.
The thoroughly inappropriate boot-knocking between Dustin Hoffman’s ennui-riddled Benjamin Braddock and Anne Bancroft’s divinely manipulative Mrs Robinson is played out to perfection, and the Simon & Garfunkel soundtrack is just sublime.
Don’t Get Up For A Mince Pie...during the initial post-party solicitation attempt - you’ll miss one of the greatest deadpan one-liners of the 1960s as a nervous Braddock attempts to man up and call the conniving cougar’s bluff.
Next: The Big Combo
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sleepwalker
Dec 8th 2009, 12:52
Wasnt Sparrow's rum burning tantrum in the first one!
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sleepwalker
Dec 8th 2009, 12:54
Wasnt Sparrows rum burning tantrum in the first one!
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MarkPowell
Dec 8th 2009, 16:55
Quite right sleepwalker...good spot, dunno quite how I managed that one! Amended to what it was supposed to have been originally now, ta.
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hughjass1970
Dec 8th 2009, 22:04
Dances With Wolves - catch the James Cameron remake in theatres from 17th Dec!
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Ali1748
Dec 9th 2009, 1:32
Midnight Run is such a vastly underrated film.
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lpatterson
Dec 9th 2009, 10:51
This is a brilliant feature! Now I don't have to spend two hours with the frickin Radio Times.
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Hadouken76
Dec 9th 2009, 12:59
dick tracys 'The Blank' was basically a rip off of Rorschach
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KerrAvon
Dec 9th 2009, 15:15
No Scrooged, shocking.
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KerrAvon
Dec 9th 2009, 15:16
Or Bad Santa Christmas is ruined.
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badblokebob
Dec 11th 2009, 15:18
And there I was thinking Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was an adaptation of a book by this guy called Roald Dahl.
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