For some the 1967 film The Graduate was a sex farce, for others, a generation gap comedy, and for still others, a ballad of alienation and rebellion. In the film, Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), a recent graduate of an Eastern college, comes back to his parent's California home with no ambition, no plans, and no self-esteem. He wanders through a maze of suburban clichés and expectations looking for something to care about, feeling like a pawn in society's chess game. Along comes Ben's father's partner's wife, Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), offering something to wake him out of his stupor—herself. Content for a while, Ben soon finds his tryst depressing; he is, after all, still aimless. His parents, trying to focus him on something, have picked the perfect girl for him, Elaine Robinson (Katherine Ross), Mrs. Robinson's daughter. Mrs. Robinson forbids the date, and Ben tries...