Matinees at the J

Join the fun at our monthly movie event.

February’s movie is The Graduate.

The Graduate is a 1967 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols and written by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham, based on the 1963 novella by Charles Webb.

It stars Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock, a recent college graduate who is seduced by an older married woman, Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), but falls for her daughter, Elaine (Katharine Ross). The soundtrack was recorded by Simon & Garfunkel, and featured the hit single “Mrs. Robinson”.

In 1996, The Graduate was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry as “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”. The following year, the American Film Institute ranked it the 7th-greatest American film and the 17th-greatest in 2007. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made.