The Graduate (1967) [Criterion Collection]

Director: Mike Nichols
Writer: Calder Willingham (screenplay), Buck Henry (screenplay)
Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross

One of the most beloved American films of all time, The Graduate earned Mike Nichols a best director Oscar, brought the music of Simon & Garfunkel to a wider audience, and introduced the world to a young actor named Dustin Hoffman. Benjamin Braddock (Hoffman) has just finished college and is already lost in a sea of confusion and barely contained angst when he becomes sexually involved with a friend of his parents’, the indomitable Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), before turning his attention to her college-age daughter (Katharine Ross). Visually imaginative and impeccably acted, with a clever, endlessly quotable script by Buck Henry (based on the novel by Charles Webb), The Graduate had the kind of cultural impact that comes along only once in a generation.

Extras:
- New 4K digital restoration
- Audio commentary from 2007 featuring Nichols in conversation with filmmaker Steven Soderbergh
- Audio commentary from 1987 featuring film scholar Howard Suber
- New interview with actor Dustin Hoffman (37:50)
- New conversation between producer Lawrence Turman and screenwriter Buck Henry (24:56)
- New interview with film writer and historian Bobbie O’Steen about editor Sam O’Steen’s work on The Graduate (26:13)
- Students of “The Graduate”, a short documentary from 2007 on the film’s influence (25:58)
- “The Graduate” at 25, a 1992 featurette on the making of the film (22:40)
- Interview with Nichols by Barbara Walters, from a 1966 episode of NBC’s Today show (15:34)
- Excerpt from a 1970 appearance by singer-songwriter Paul Simon on The Dick Cavett Show (5:29)
- 3 Screen tests (13:18)
- Trailer (3:46)