The Graduate: Quick Facts

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News •

Dustin Hoffman says making ‘The Graduate’ was a ‘terrible experience’ • Nov. 10, 2026, 7:05 PM ET (San Francisco Chronicle)

Dustin Hoffman says filming The Graduate was ‘a terrible experience’ due to Mike Nichols’ ‘sadism’ • Nov. 3, 2026, 10:02 AM ET (The Guardian)

Americana cinema weekend brings Hollywood classics to Tel Aviv • Oct. 19, 2026, 3:32 PM ET (Jerusalem Post)

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Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock stands barefoot in a room, looking at a woman's outstretched leg in the foreground, in a scene from The Graduate (1967).

Katharine Ross in a wedding dress and Dustin Hoffman run from a church, with guests watching through glass doors, in a scene from The Graduate (1967).

Director Mike Nichols, wearing sunglasses, sits beside a film camera at a pool's edge, directing Dustin Hoffman, who is lying on a swim float, during filming of The Graduate.

Anne Bancroft, wearing a leopard print coat, and Dustin Hoffman, in a suit, sit together at a hotel bar table in a scene from the 1967 film The Graduate.

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