Of course, right? Much like Terms of Endearment was the obvious Mother's Day choice from a few weeks ago, how much better can you do for graduation week than a little movie called The Graduate? It also happens to be one of my favorite movies ever, so yeah, it was an easy call. This was Dustin Hoffman's breakthrough role as Benjamin Braddock, the disillusioned and confused college grad who drifts into an affair with the enigmatic Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft) and then falls in love with her daughter Elaine (the beautiful Katharine Ross). Scored to the iconic tunes of Simon & Garfunkel and leads up to one of the all time best ending sequences in the history of the movies. Enjoy The Graduate this week, as I have and will again and again, and congratulations to all recent ascendants of higher education. May your future path be less heedless than the wayward Ben's.
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