Ever notice that every blockbuster movie has the same fundamental pieces? A hero, a journey, some conflicts to muck it all up, a reward, and the hero returning home and everybody applauding his or...

California; the 1960'sThe action takes pace in California, a state where the northern and southern cultures are so different that some people have suggested they should be separate states. Ben's fa...

Benjamin Braddock appears in every scene of The Graduate. So we're seeing everything from his perspective—at times, literally, like when we see his perspective from inside his new scuba-diving su...

Coming of Age Movie; Comedy-Drama; SatireThe Graduate is different from other "Coming of Age" movies and books, since Benjamin is a little older. But even though Benjamin's a college graduate and t...

Well, self-explanatory. The title of the film and the novel on which it's based describes the main character, Benjamin Braddock, who is a freshly minted college graduate. But that's all he is; he h...

The ending of The Graduate is kind of cryptic. Benjamin shows up, crashes Elaine's wedding, fights off the angry guests with a cross, and runs away with the bride. They're totally elated, laughing...

PG (but actually PG-13) A movie about adultery is going to get a rating higher than G. But since The Graduate came out in 1967, before the PG-13 rating debuted, it surprisingly has only a PG rating...