Cape Cod

His film 'The Graduate' (1967) captures the existential tension and upper-middle-class anxiety of New England coastal communities that define the Cape Cod sensibility.

His adaptation of 'The Cider House Rules' (1999) deeply explores rural New England life, family dynamics, and moral complexity in small coastal towns reminiscent of Cape Cod.

While British, his documentary-style approach to working-class life and community parallels the grounded, human-centered storytelling found in Cape Cod-set narratives.