What is The Graduate about?
A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
Does it have a happy ending? (spoiler-safe)
It leaves the ending open to interpretation.
A young man's melancholy affair with an older woman becomes a witty, dark satire of suburban ennui.
Intimate and satirical, with dry wit. A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Streaming on Kanopy (free), The Roku Channel (free), Plex (free) and Tubi (free).
The Graduate parents guide
Moderate sex and nudity, which is more than most PG titles carry. Beyond that, mild language and nothing scary.
Our estimate: fine from about 16, higher than the PG suggests, because of the sex and nudity.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- No real violence
- Sex and nudity
- Moderate
- Moderate means a sex scene or nudity on screen, even brief, or sexual violence that is described or implied but never shown.
- Language
- Mild
- Mild words like damn, hell or crap.
How we rate: an AI reads what is known about each title and tags it 0 to 3; we check the tags against a hand-rated set and correct them by hand when readers tell us. Estimates, not a scene-by-scene review. Spot a mistake? Tell us.
Cast and crew
Directed byMike Nichols
StarringDustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, William Daniels, Murray Hamilton, Elizabeth Wilson
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