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1971

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Starring	Jack Nicholson, Candice Bergen, Art Garfunkel, Ann-Margret
Director	Mike Nichols
Genres	Comedy

Carnal Knowledge

Maybe you're not supposed to like it with someone you love. With a script by satirist and cartoonist Jules Feiffer, Mike Nichols's Carnal Knowledge (1971) ruthlessly exposed the damage wrought by pre-1960s sexual mores. From their post-World War II college years at Amherst through the Vietnam era, buddies Jonathan (Jack Nicholson) and Sandy (Art Garfunkel) are a catalogue of male sexual dysfunction. Sensitive Sandy falls in love with and marries college sweetheart Susan (Candice Bergen) only to wonder years later if he missed out on finding the perfect sex/love partner. Jonathan lives for aggressive sexual conquest (starting with Sandy's Susan in college), even as he rails against female ballbusters, finally guilt-marrying his tiredly voluptuous mistress Bobbie (Ann-Margret, in an Oscar-nominated performance) after she tries to kill herself. By the late '60s, Sandy has moved on to a hippie chick girlfriend (Carol Kane) who can raise his consciousness about the sexual revolution, and Jonathan is single again, but Sandy is a little too old for the peace-and-love generation, and Jonathan bitterly faces emasculating impotence.~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide

Starring	Jack Nicholson, Candice Bergen, Art Garfunkel, Ann-Margret, Carol Kane, Rita Moreno, Cynthia O'Neal
Director	Mike Nichols
Studio	ELEVATION
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 34 mins
Certificate
Genres	Comedy
Language	DVD: English
Dubbed	German, Italian, Spanish
Subtitles	DVD: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish
Released	Production year: 1971 To Rent: DVD: 25 Mar 2002

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- Hampered by an unsuitable wide screen, this pretentious but fragmented comedy drama is embarrassingly conscious of its own daring in subject and language, and good performances are weighed down by an unsubtle script and tricksy direction.
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  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:42
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  What you had billed as commedy is in fact a realistic view of relationships where lust is the basis and not love. I saw the movie shortly after its original ... read more »
  
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  This movie is dull, slow and not really worth the effort to watch, shame because the cast are all credible…
  
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  'CARNAL KNOWLEDGE'
  
  With this cast how can't you enjoy this film.
  
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  I still think Art Garfunkel was best in Catch 22, but as I own Bad Timing this is somewhat cold. However, the 'adult' period ofit used to scare me ... read more »
  
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  Maybe you're not supposed to like it with someone you love. With a script by satirist and cartoonist Jules Feiffer, Mike Nichols's Carnal Knowledge (1971) ruthlessly exposed the damage wrought by pre-1960s sexual mores. From their post-World War II college years at Amherst through the Vietnam era, ...