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Rumor Has It is hitched to local gossip that counterculture classic The Graduate was based on a real family. Tip: Watch the new movie first; you'll need the Mike Nichols original to clear the bad taste from your mouth.
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Rumor Has It (2005)
A woman (Jennifer Aniston) realizes her grandmother (Shirley MacLaine)
may have been the model for Mrs. Robinson — so does that mean gram's former lover (Kevin Costner) eventually became the heroine's biological
dad? And if not, is it okay to sleep with him? A decent cast trips over
the dreadful screenplay: Aniston realizes halfway through that her
character makes no flipping sense, and Mark Ruffalo dies a thousand
deaths as her fiancé. Only MacLaine has fun mimicking Anne Bancroft's
liquored-up Pasadena lockjaw. D+
OLD FAVORITE
The Graduate (1967)
Now we're talking. From the early shot of a numbed Dustin Hoffman
gliding along an airport walkway to Simon and Garfunkel's ''The Sound of
Silence,'' we're in good hands. The hit ages like wine and should speak
just as eloquently to disaffected grads in the 21st century. The last
third may drag a bit — ''Scarborough Fair'' is a pretty song, but four times
is once too many—but try not weeping as the late Bancroft finds layers
of pain beneath her man-eating adultress, and that penultimate shot is
just plain remorseless. A-
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