We’ve all seen the hit 1967 film The Graduate that made Dustin Hoffman a star. If you haven’t, you should read this story, turn off your phone immediately after doing so, and watch The Graduate, because it’s that great. It follows a recent college grad who has moved back in with his parents and doesn’t have that much going on in his life. He begins an affair with his older married neighbor, played by Anne Bancroft. It was one of the movies that ushered in the era of New Hollywood, where affairs and similar themes could be shown more explicitly, and films were less heavily censored by motion picture associations. While old Hollywood was producing tired musicals like Camelot and Hello, Dolly!, new Hollywood was exploring relationships that hadn’t been depicted so explicitly onscreen since before the Hays Code was implemented in the mid-1930s. Now we could finally see age gap love affairs onscreen!