THE GRADUATE OPENS IN NEW YORK; MAKING ALFA ROMEO DUETTO SPIDER FAMOUS (THC) Today in history Dec 21 1967 The film The Graduate opens at two theaters in New York: the Coronet on Third Avenue and the Lincoln Art Theater on Broadway. The film, based on a 1963 novel by Charles Webb, had a simple premise: As its screenwriter explained it, this kid graduates college, has an affair with his parents best friend, and then falls in love with the friends daughter. (It was, he added, the best pitch I ever heard.) In other words, The Graduate was an uneasy exploration of what it meant to be young and adrift at a time of extraordinary confusion and upheaval.
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