Satirical comedy about a young college graduate (Dustin Hoffman) who returns home a hero to his middle-class parents, but finds himself protesting against the values their world represents but at the same time takes time off to have affairs with a neighbour's neurotic wife (Anne Bancroft) and her daughter (Katharine Ross). 1


Books with substantial mentioning of The Graduate

Mark Harris
Pictures at a revolution, Five movies and the birth of the new Hollywood
New York, 2008

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Jürgen Müller (ed.)
Movies of the 60s
Köln, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Paris, Tokyo, 2005

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Peter van Gelder
Offscreen Onscreen, The inside stories of 60 great films
London, 1990

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1990, A Survey of the Films of 1989
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1990

Joel Finler
All-Time Box-Office Hits
New York City, 1985

Ann Lloyd (ed.)
Movies of the Sixties
London, 1983

Articles on The Graduate

Hannah McGill, Mrs Robinson's Cigarette, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 9 (September), 2012 pp. 8-9

Articles with substantial mentioning of The Graduate

The 45 greatest rock 'n' roll moments in movie history, in: Empire, nr. 162, 2002 pp. 124-135

Kai Mihm, Wer hätte eigentlich...?, in: epd Film, nr. 8, 2010 pp. 20-25