Tuesday, July 26th 2005
The Graduate “Sequel”
A slightly more creative project than endless Hollywood remakes is Rob Reiner’s upcoming film, “Rumor Has It.” IMDB gives us the plot outline:
Jennifer Aniston plays a woman who learns that her family was the inspiration for the book and film “The Graduate” — and that she just might be the offspring of the well-documented event.
It appears that Kevin Costner will play the role of Benjamin, Dustin Hoffman’s character in the 1967 classic. And Shirley MacLaine will try her take at the late Anne Bancroft’s Mrs. Robinson.
The original film is one of my favorites. My high school English teacher showed it to our class. This was shortly after I chose to attend UC Berkeley. So seeing Berkeley in a film was pretty cool. Even if it was USC after all. Either way, excellent movie.
But I digress. How about this new flick? Judging from the recently released trailer, it looks like your basic romantic comedy. It’ll probably be better than average though, given its unique premise. And incest jokes. Plenty of opportunities for incest jokes.
Check it out this December. If you haven’t seen the original movie, what are you waiting for?
It’d be cool if Paul Simon wrote a new song for the flick.
Comment by anon — 7/27/2005 @ 2:50 pm
One of the best parts of the original was definitely the soundtrack. But I don’t know if they could live up to the standard that they set. I’d like to see them try though.
Comment by patr — 7/27/2005 @ 3:20 pm