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Mike Nichols’s The Graduate has one of the most memorable endings in movie history, but it’s also ambiguous and open to interpretation, with questions that need to be answered and meanings that need to be explained. Adapted from Charles Webb’s novel of the same name, The Graduate revolves around aimless recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), who begins an affair with an older married woman, Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), before falling in love with her daughter, Elaine (Katharine Ross). The Graduate became iconic for flipping a typical Hollywood romance on its head. It received seven Oscar nominations, including one for Best Picture, and Nichols won Best Director.

Parodied in everything from The Simpsons to Wayne’s World 2, the iconic final shot of The Graduate has become an endearing staple of popular culture. After providing audiences with the expected closure of the two leads running off to start a life together,...

What can you say to such success? Mike Nichols and Buck Henry's sex satire defined 'the generation gap' for the sixties. Dustin Hoffman sprang forward from obscurity and Katharine Ross was the object of California desire. Anne Bancroft's Mrs. Robinson freed the image of the 'complicated woman' from the clutches of the Production Code Stone Age. The broad comedy scores with every joke, and there's a truth beneath all the odd things that ought not to work. The Graduate Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 800 1967 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 106 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date February 23, 2016 / 39.95 Starring Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross, William Daniels, Murray Hamilton, Elizabeth Wilson, Buck Henry, Brian Avery, Walter Brooke, Norman Fell, Alice Ghostley, Marion Lorne, Eddra Gale, Richard Dreyfuss, Mike Farrell, Elisabeth Fraser, Donald F. Glut, Elaine May, Lainie Miller, Ben Murphy. Cinematography Robert Surtees Film Editor Sam O'Steen Production Design Richard Sylbert...