The Graduate at Bay Theatre (Monday Special)

Bay Theatre’s Monday Special on June 29: a one-showing-only screening of “The Graduate,” Mike Nichols’s 1967 American classic, doors at 5:00 PM, show at 5:30 PM.

$10 admission.

The kind of film that doesn’t actually need an introduction. Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock, fresh out of college and stunned into inaction, finds himself in a triangle of lust and love with Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft) and her daughter (Katharine Ross). Simon & Garfunkel on the soundtrack. The film that defined a generation’s view of itself and continues to deliver on every rewatch.

In Bay Theatre’s own words: “Questionable manners, questionable morals, and unquestionably one of the defining greats of American 60s cinema. Dustin Hoffman’s perfectly stunted and endearingly awkward Benjamin Braddock is the unlikely lothario who finds himself embroiled in a triangle of lust and love with the beautiful Robinson women, a mother-daughter duo played unforgettably by Anne Bancroft and Katharine Ross. This pressure cooker passion play is a darkly funny, deeply thoughtful, and expertly crafted meditation on life, love, and alienation in the modern world.”

The Bay Theatre is a single-screen movie house at 464 Morro Bay Boulevard, the kind of independent neighborhood theater where this film deserves to be seen. PG, 1 hour 46 minutes. Watch the trailer.

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