"I'd say I'm just drifting here...in the pool."

This weekend, I watched The Graduate and Garden State back-to-back. I've always wanted to do that, since they are in many ways the same film separated by 35 years.

Both films were even better than I remembered them, and watching them together made it even better. I noticedthis time that both films start with shots of the protagonist on a plane. I hadn't …