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b'As cinema developed, as a medium and as an art, it went through periods of significant change, both in form and content. The late 60s was one of the most drastic turning points, as the free love movement, the hippie movement, and the anti-war movement all dovetailed together, creating what film scholars refer to as the "counter-culture movement" in film. The style, stories, and structure of the stories being told on the big screen started rejecting traditional Hollywood in order to craft new narratives, tales of the youth of the day and what their lives were like, that reflected their experiences living in the America they\'d inherited from their parents, whose culture they soundly rejected. And the poster-child of counter-culture films arrived in 1967, an examination of the ennui experienced by those coming out of college and looking ahead at their futures with bleak and detached hearts and minds as they realized that they wanted something different than their parents had, but not knowing what that might be or how to find it. Directed by Mike Nichols, and starring William Daniels, Katherine Ross, Anne Bancroft, and a young Dustin Hoffman, "The Graduate" took all of that existential angst and wrapped it into a story about a young college graduate so morally and spiritually adrift that an affair with an older woman becomes both a distraction and a crisis, and when that woman\'s daughter enters the picture, things take several turns for the worse... or do they?'