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Mike Nichols’ The Graduate, New 4K Restoration to be Released Nationwide for 50th Anniversary

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New York-based specialty distributor Rialto Pictures and StudioCanal has announced the release of Mike Nichols‘ groundbreaking The Graduate, starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft, in new 4K digital prints beginning in April.

The 50 anniversary restoration will have its world premiere on April 8 at the TCL Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, as a centerpiece event of this year’s TCM Classic Film Festival. The new Graduate restoration will then play in over 700 movie theaters nationwide on April 23 and 26, as part of TCM and Fathom Events‘ monthly “TCM Big Screen Classics” series.

Photo Credit: Rialto Pictures
Photo Credit: Rialto Pictures

The new restoration will also screen at this year’s Il Cinema Ritrovato festival in Bologna and will be released theatrically and as a special edition home entertainment release in all StudioCanal territories (France, Germany, U.K., Australia and New Zealand) throughout the summer.

Hoffman, in his breakout role, is Benjamin Braddock, the college track star suddenly adrift after graduation, and ripe for seduction by an older, married woman: Bancroft’s coldly calculating friend-of-the-family Mrs. Robinson. When Ben ultimately falls for dream girl Elaine (Katharine Ross), who happens to be the Robinsons’ daughter, it sets up a love triangle like no other in American films up to that time.

Adapted from the Charles Webb novel by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham, The Graduate was nominated for seven Oscars and won for director Nichols’ sophomore effort. The classic “Top 40” score by Simon & Garfunkel started a new trend in soundtrack music as well.

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