The Graduate 15

You’re trying to seduce me, aren’t you? It’s 50 years since the release of The Graduate and we’re celebrating with a wonderful new restoration. Dustin Hoffman’s breakout film tells the story of Benjamin Braddock, a recent graduate who has collected every conceivable honour at university but for whom the real purpose of life and the future is an elusive and intangible concept. Easily persuaded into an affair with married family friend Mrs. Robinson, things become complicated when his parents insist he takes her daughter Elaine out on a date. All to the strains of Simon & Garfunkel’s brilliant and witty soundtrack – an iconic sixties classic.