“One word: plastics.” “Are you here for an matter?” These line and others become cultural standard, as 1960s young person rebellion seep into the Golden State upper middle-class in microphone Nichols’ landmark hit. Mentally adrift the summertime after graduate from college, suburbanite benzoin Braddock (Dustin Malvina Hoffman) would instead drift in his parent’ pool than follow grownup advice about his hereafter.