Goofs for
The Graduate (1967) More at IMDbPro »

• Revealing mistakes: In the scene in which Benjamin and Mrs. Robinson meet at the hotel bar, Benjamin unsuccessfully attempts to draw the attention of a passing waiter. In the glass wall behind them, the waiter can be seen to stop as he leaves the frame and wait for his cue to re-enter.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Ben sabotages Elaine's wedding, someone tells Elaine that it's "too late" for her to return to Ben. She replies, "Not for me!" Her voice sounds as if she's screaming the line, but her mouth moves as if she's only whispering it.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: As Benjamin and Mrs. Robinson drive and run through the "rain" near the Robinson house, the lawns and shrubbery in the background are lit by bright sunshine.
  
  

• Continuity: When Ben is outside Elaine's house watching the Robinsons pack the car, he puts his hand on the rear-view mirror. In the next shot, which is a close-up of the rear-view mirror, the hand is nowhere.
  
  
• Continuity: In the first scene at the airport, Ben walks close towards the automatic door, past a pillar. In the next shot, he hasn't reached the pillar, and walks for a few second to reach where he was where the cut occurred.
  
  
• Continuity: In the "What are you so scared of" scene towards the beginning, Mrs. Robinson has her shoulders slouching to the left. In the next shot, from the reverse, they are slouching to the right.
  
  
• Continuity: During the "plastics" speech, we see a shot of Mr. Macguire and Ben from the middle of the living room. In the next shot, they are by the sliding door.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ben goes home after he talks to Mr. Robinson after Mrs. Robinson seduces him he is holding is glass. He still holds it as he is walking out the door and never gives it to Mr. Robinson, or sets it down, and continues to walk out the door and as he walks outside he does not have the glass anymore.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ben is in the hotel bar waiting for Mrs. Robinson he takes a sip of his drink and the glass has ice in it, when he sets the glass down and there is a reflection of Mrs. Robinson on the glass table there is no ice in the glass.
  
  
• Continuity: When Braddock is in the hotel sitting in bed smoking a cigarette, and he reaches up to the shades, and when his hand shows up again in the scene, the cigarette is no longer there.
  
  
• Errors in geography: On Benjamin's driving trips from Berkeley to LA, he goes through a tunnel. This tunnel, north of Santa Barbara, is actually a northbound tunnel. There is no southbound tunnel, contrary to the scenes in the movie.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When Ben is seen crossing the Oakland Bay Bridge on his way to Berkeley he is driving on the upper of the two decks of the Bridge which only carries traffic westbound from Oakland to San Francisco and thus would be taking him away from Berkeley. The only way to get to Berkeley by way of the Bay Bridge is to drive Eastbound, and all such traffic is carried only on the lower deck of the Bridge.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ben tells his parents he is going to Berkley to see Elaine he is wearing a black collared shirt under a brown jacket. When he is sitting on the fountain at Berkley waiting for Elaine it switches to a white collared shirt, then back to black in the next scene when he is getting a room.
  
  
• Errors in geography: As Benjamin exits Rt 101 in Santa Barbara for the church in the last scenes, the exit states "Santa Barbara - Vernon Ave". There is no Vernon Avenue in Santa Barbara.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mrs. Robinson gets Benjamin to come inside her home, she turns on the stereo after making a drink for Benjamin. They go upstairs then, and when Benjamin hears Mr. Robinson pulling up to the house and rushes downstairs, the music is no longer playing.
  
  
• Plot holes: Mr. Robinson claims he is divorcing Mrs. Robinson, yet they are apparently together again at Elaine's wedding.
  
  

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