The Graduate (1967) is Seduced on the Criterion Collection
The Criterion Collection released The Graduate to Blu-ray on February 23, 2016. Mike Nichols directed the film starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, and Katharine Ross.
‘The Graduate’ Criterion Synopsis
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.
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Special Features
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Optional 5.1 surround remix, approved by director Mike Nichols, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray
- 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
- New conversation between producer Lawrence Turman and screenwriter Buck Henry
- New interview with film writer and historian Bobbie O’Steen about editor Sam O’Steen’s work on The Graduate
- Students of “The Graduate,” a short documentary from 2007 on the film’s influence
- “The Graduate” at 25, a 1992 featurette on the making of the film
- Interview with Nichols by Barbara Walters, from a 1966 episode of NBC’s Today show
- Excerpt from a 1970 appearance by singer-songwriter Paul Simon on The Dick Cavett Show
- Screen tests
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by journalist and critic Frank Rich
Cover design by Eric Skillman, based on an original advertising campaign
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Embassy Pictures released The Graduate on December 22, 1967. Mike Nichols directed the film starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, and Katharine Ross.