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Benjamin doesn't kiss anyone on the lips but in the 20 seconds it takes him to walk down from his room to the party a small smudge of lipstick appears on the left side of his lower lip as he speaks to the guests. See more...

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A change from the theatrical re-release for the 25th anniversary and the video release. In the first Taft Hotel bedroom scene, a nervous Ben asks Mrs. Robinson if she would like "Wood or Wire [hanger]?" In the theater, her response was, "wood." Which led to the wonderful pratfall of Ben trying to take the wood one, which wouldn't come off. But it was changed in the 25th anniversary video release and her response was, "Either one would be fine." See more...

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The Graduate (1967) - 4 corrections

Directed by Mike Nichols, starring Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman (add more)

Genres: Drama, Romance, Comedy

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In the opening scene, Benjamin has returned to Los Angeles from college and is riding a moving walkway through the airport. Although the tag on his bag says LAX (the airport code for the Los Angeles International airport) that airport has never had a moving walkway. [Prior to the major remodel completed in 1984, Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) did have moving walkways in nearly every terminal. They were certainly in place in the late 1960's.]

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In one scene Ben and Elaine are supposed to be at UC Berkeley, but the buildings visible in the background are actually the Doheney Library and the Von Kleinsmid Center, which are located at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. [Using one location for another is not a mistake. Locations stand in for others all the time - films set in Los Angeles are frequently shot in Toronto (for tax purposes) and Full Metal Jacket, set in South Carolina and Vietnam, was shot in London's Docklands.]

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From the cafe, DH spots Katherine Ross on a bus, so he gets on too. In the next scene, they're at a zoo and she asks him what he's doing "here" in Berkeley. The zoo is actually in San Francisco. [Elaine isn't asking Ben why he's at the zoo, because that's not important. She's asking him, in essence, what he is doing "here" in her presence. There could be many reasons why she said "Here in Berkeley", the best could be that she didn't want to make a scene on the bus in front of people, so she just didn't ask until they were alone together.]

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Towards the end of the movie, Ben returns to Elaine's home after she quits school and finds her mother in her room. He rushes off in his car to stop Elaine's wedding in Santa Barbara and is confronted by the people attending the wedding, including Elaine's mother. Mrs. Robinson couldn't have gotten there before Ben did. [Mrs. Robinson could have gotten there before Ben did - just because she lives in L.A., and Ben first has to rush to Berkeley to ask Carl's fellow students where the wedding takes place, and then back to Santa Barbara. No wonder that his Alfa was in need of some gas.]

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