'The Graduate': Read THR's 1967 Review — hollywoodreporter.com

On Dec. 18, 1967, The Hollywood Reporter reviewed a film that further catapulted the career of Mike Nichols and Dustin Hoffman and became an enduring classic. Read the original review of The Graduate below, originally headlined "'Graduate' Will Benefit From Word-of-Mouth Plugs."  The Mike Nichols-Lawrence Turnman production of Charles Webb's The Graduate, a Joseph E. Levine presentation for Embassy pictures release, is a brutally funny look at contemporary youth, encrusted with status symbols and guilt for gilt rejecting the weights of privilege to rail against the tides of society they would rather reject than succumb to, rather question than attend to. Both tuned and attuned to its subject and on target for most of its course, this second film from director Nichols will benefit from enthusiastic word of mouth, winning a large audience and corresponding profits from both sides of the 30 year demarcation line.

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