The Graduates

Name: The Graduates
Genre: Drama
Released: November 1, 2024
Duration: 87 min
Rating: 77
Cast: Adriane McLean, Alex R. Hibbert, Bradley Fehr, Brooke Bird, John Cho

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| Release Date: November 1, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Adriane McLean, Alex R. Hibbert, Bradley Fehr, Brooke Bird, John Cho, John Forker, Joseph Canella, Kaci Arena, Kelly O'Sullivan, Maria Dizzia, Mina Sundwall, Musa Aden, Nicholas Anderson, Ruby Campbell, Stephen Fuller Austin, Yasmeen Fletcher

Summary: A year after her boyfriend dies from gun violence, a young woman prepares to graduate high school as she navigates an uncertain future alongside a community that is searching for ways to heal.

Director: Hannah Peterson

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 87 min

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The Playlist Christian Gallichio

Nov 1, 2024

It’s a quiet film in every sense of the word. One that relies on the expressions of its actors over the words that they are saying, but it’s also one of the more compelling debuts in some time and a film that’s well worth seeking out. Read full review

Collider Taylor Gates

Jul 10, 2023

The Graduates is a compelling drama with incredible performances across the board and confident direction. Read full review

Screen Rant Mae Abdulbaki

Nov 1, 2024

The film is grounded, avoiding sensationalism and empty indulgences. Read full review

Pat Brown

Oct 29, 2024

While Hannah Peterson, with her emphasis on quiet moments and mementos mori, effectively suffuses The Graduates with a mournful absence of life, she also reminds us of the warmth that can be so typical of high school. Read full review

The Film Stage Dan Mecca

Nov 1, 2024

Sundwall is quite impressive in the lead, with much depending on her in solitary sequences. Not every supporting performer can hold their own next to her, but she’s a gracious screen partner. There is much empathy in every frame here. Dizzia and Cho do superb work, anchoring the emotion and responsibility of the entire picture. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Monica Castillo

Nov 1, 2024

The Graduates is a reflective movie, an emotional story without telling you how to feel, only that for many people across the country, learning to live with grief can be just as important as planning for the future. Read full review

Beatrice Loayza

Oct 31, 2024

Peterson’s script is frustratingly single-note and occasionally bends toward unearned sentimentality. Still, The Graduates feels true to its milieu; its emotional clarity impressive given the loaded subject matter and the film’s subdued style. Read full review

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