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The Graduate: 50th Anniversary Blu-ray Edition
Posted May 3, 2017 03:43 PM by
StudioCanal will celebrate the 50th anniversary of director Mike Nichols' film The Graduate with a brand new Blu-ray release, which will be available for purchase online and in stores across the United Kingdom on July 24.
Synopsis: A complete sensation on its original release in 1967, The Graduate was a one-of-a-kind cinematic portrait of America which captured the mood of disaffected youth seething beneath the laid-back exterior of 1960s California. It earned Mike Nichols a Best Director Oscar, introduced the music of Simon & Garfunkel to a wider audience and featured one of the most famous seductions in movie history and a truly iconic final scene. The Graduate also introduced the world to a young actor named Dustin Hoffman, perfectly cast as the jaw-droppingly naďve Benjamin.
Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) has just finished college and is already lost in a sea of confusion as he wonders what to do with his life. He returns to his parents' luxurious Beverly Hills home, where he idles away the summer floating in the pool and brooding in silence. He is rescued from the boredom when he is seduced into a clandestine affair with a middle-aged married friend of his parents, Mrs Robinson (Anne Bancroft). That liaison is soon complicated by Benjamin's infatuation with her college-age daughter Elaine (Katharine Ross).
Visually imaginative and impeccably acted, with a witty, endlessly quotable script by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry (based on the novel by Charles Webb), with a supporting cast that includes William Daniels, Murray Hamilton, Walter Brooke and Elizabeth Wilson, The Graduate had the kind of cultural impact that comes along only once in a generation.
*Last month, the new new 4K restoration of The Graduate was also screened theatrically in the United States as part of the Fathom Events series. The 4K restoration is already available on Blu-ray via the Criterion Collection. You can see our listing and review of this release here.
One of my favourite films ever. Would be neat to see some of the Criterion supplements carried over to the new disk (as well as legacy supplements from earlier Studiocanal disks).
The artwork is interesting! I really like it and I LOVE this film! One of my favorites! But I already have the Studiocanal steelbook and Criterion release. I don't need a third copy.
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