It's really sad to me when a person dismisses a film as "overrated" and doesn't take into consideration the age and era of a film. I honestly don't see how ANYONE couldn't at least appreciate, let alone love, this film in how it was so key in changing the style of cinema for the 1970's. It's also obviously a matter of youthful discontent, as evidenced by Roger Ebert's two polemic reviews of this film. When he first saw it in 1967, he loved it - he could relate to the flawed young man's discontentment of upper-middle class hypocrisy and could feel the alienation of his generation from their parents. 30 years later, Ebert is old, set in his ways - he IS the upper-middle class that he so rallied against, and his review of The Graduate is disparaging and devoid of any understanding of the film's emotional core. Well I, for one, found the film to be dated, true, but its message is still the same and can be felt by just as many people of this generation as it was back then.