Feature Film at The Capri
Words: Evans Bailey
That’s okay, it only turned 45 years old last year. Surely you’ve been doing more important things in that time. Right? Was there a college degree in there? Work? Get married? Kids and stuff? Have an affair with your dad’s business partner who happens to be the mother of your future fiancee?
Well listen, all that important stuff is what’s got Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) down after he returns home from college, The Graduate has swimming pools, Simon & Garfunkel tunes, the alluring Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Robinson (the all-time MILF prototype), a sweet Alfa Romeo Spider coupe, and plastics. Directed by Mike Nichols, whose movies I hope to everything you have seen (Catch-22, Postcards from the Edge, The Birdcage, Charlie Wilson’s War, and Regarding Henry--although the less said about Regarding Henry the better), The Graduate is a pioneer in the genre of awkward humour/modern dilemma films that appears to be all the rage these days. If you’ve ever seen a Duplass brothers film and liked it, you can thank The Graduate. Show your appreciation at the Capri Theatre on May 16 at 7:30. Then you won’t have to fake it next time someone asks if you are trying to seduce them.