“Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me.” With those words, Dustin Hoffman’s film career was launched (in a role originally intended for Robert Redford) and Mike Nichols won the Oscar for directing this wickedly wry and funny classic. It’s hard to imagine that more than 35 years have passed since “plastics” entered the popular lexicon, and Simon and Garfunkle’s infectious music expressed the emotions of a generation. As a recent college graduate trying to navigate the alien world of adulthood, Hoffman begins an affair with the “middle-aged” woman next door (a cynical Anne Bancroft), in the midst of falling in love with her daughter and flaunting the conventions of his suburban parents.

Starring Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross, William Daniels, Murray Hamilton, Elizabeth Wilson, Brian Avery, Walter Brooke, Norman Fell, Elizabeth Fraser, Alice Ghostley, Buck Henry, Marion Lorne. Directed by Mike Nichols. Produced by Lawrence Turman. Screenplay by Calder Willingham & Buck Henry. Based on the novel by Charles Webb. Songs composed by Paul Simon; Sung by Simon & Garfunkel. Additional music by David Grusin. Director of Cinematography Robert Surtees. Production Supervisor George Justin. Assistant Director Don Kranze. Film Editor Sam O’Steen. Assistant Film Editor Bob Wyman. Production Design by Richard Sylbert. Costumes by Patricia Zipprodt. Sound by Jack Soloman. Set Decorator George Nelson. Makeup by Harry Maret. Hairdresser Sherry Wilson. Hair styles created by Sydney Guilaroff. Joseph E. Levine presents a Mike Nichols - Lawrence Turman Production. In Panavision and Technicolor. An Embassy Pictures Release, 1967. Print Courtesy of Sony Pictures. Running Time: 105 mins.

Academy Awards : Directing (Nichols).

Nominations : Actor (Hoffman), Actress (Bancroft), Actress in a Supporting Role (Ross), Cinematography (Surtees), Best Picture (Turman), Writing (Screenplay based on material from another medium) (Willingham, Henry).