The ProblemBenjamin Braddock is a mess. Anxious, lost, aimless, alienated, disaffected—the character's been called all those things. The film presented his dilemma so well that 35 years later, on...

A Complicated Woman Bow chicka wow wow.Ahem.Mrs. Robinson is a friend of Ben's parents, which means she's known Benjamin his entire life. She's smart, direct, sexy, cynical, very attracted to Benja...

A First Date at a Strip Club That…Works Out?Benjamin falls in love with Elaine Robinson (Katharine Ross), a girl he knew in high school but didn't like very much. Oh, he's also having an affair w...

When we first see Mr. Robinson, it's right after Mrs. Robinson has tried to seduce Benjamin by getting naked and closing the door behind her. So…Ben's still a little rattled. The irony is that, i...

Benjamin's dad, Mr. Braddock is a rich attorney. He doesn't seem to be a particularly bad guy, but Benjamin seems uncomfortable with his affluence. (That doesn't keep him from accepting the Alfa Ro...

Benjamin's mom, Mrs. Braddock is concerned about her son just lying around for weeks doing nothing. She wants to know where he goes every night and won't believe him when he claims he's just gettin...

The room clerk, played by the movie's screenwriter Buck Henry, is at the Taft Hotel when Benjamin arrives to book a room for his affair with Mrs. Robinson. The clerk immediately catches Ben off-gua...

Carl is Elaine's fiancé, played by Brian Avery. We don't really get to see him say anything or do anything, aside from a muted scene of him yelling in rage, as Benjamin disrupts his wedding. But w...

A friend of Benjamin's parents, Mr. McGuire is important for one reason and one reason only: he drops the most famous line in the whole movie. He and Ben have the following celebrated exchange at B...

Mr. McCleery (Norman Fell) is Benjamin's landlord after Ben moves up to Berkeley to convince Elaine to marry him. He's kind of a hard-edged dude. Immediately suspicious of Ben, he wants to know if...

When Ben goes to the Taft Hotel to meet Mrs. Robinson and commence their affair, he pretends that he's actually there for an event called "The Singleman Party," being hosted by a lady named Mrs. Si...

Miss DeWitte (Marion Lorne, in her final film role) is the sister of Mrs. Singleman, the hostess of the party that Benjamin momentarily pretends he's attending. And that's absolutely all you need t...