Movies · 1967
Plastics.
— Mr. McGuire · The Graduate
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
An adult reduces a young man’s uncertain future to a single business opportunity. The confident advice is comic because it offers an answer to a question about life without really hearing the question.
- AFI100 Movie Quotes, number42; selected film wording and same-film synopsis.Reference checked
- AFI CatalogThe Graduate23387: selected one-word quotation and Walter Brooke’s Mr. McGuire cast credit; institutional spelling retained.Reference checked
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