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1971

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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, buddies Jonathan (Jack .. Read more

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

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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.
- 31473
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:42
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  LUST VS LOVE
  
  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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  - Saxmundham, England
  - 26 Jan 2005 at 21:53
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  In the Know
  
  This film does this thing with conversations, in starting them as if they are long monologues, delivered straight to camera. This makes the audience feel like ... read more »
  
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- - russio
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  - Harlow
  - 30 Apr 2012 at 21:41
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  Carnal Knowledge
  
  This movie is dull, slow and not really worth the effort to watch, shame because the cast are all credible…
  
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- - ian3
  - 538 reviews
  - Salisbury
  - 26 Jun 2011 at 18:49
- - 0
  - 0
  'CARNAL KNOWLEDGE'
  
  With this cast how can't you enjoy this film.
  
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  - Weymouth
  - 14 Oct 2008 at 18:25
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  art
  
  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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  - London
  - 05 Jun 2008 at 19:57
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  Dull and depressing
  
  This starts off lightly enough and then gets into a darker study of an unhappy womaniser and his empty marriage. I have to say that I found it fairly dull with... read more »
  
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  - London
  - 21 Jan 2008 at 14:29
- - 0
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  Early role for Carol Kane fans
  
  One of the first appearances in film by Carol Kane who went on to appear in many more films. Though she only appears for about 2 minutes at the end and in a ... read more »
  
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  - Doncaster, England
  - 30 Jan 2007 at 21:27
- - 0
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  Male chauvinist slimeball Jack in its infancy
  
  Male chauvinist slimeball Jack in its infancy. (For more of that, see pretty much any of his eighties movies.) While his character is entertaining on the ... read more »
  
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- - bigbobby
  - 15 reviews
  - Newbury
  - 30 Oct 2006 at 22:13
- - 2
  - 0
  A film about its time and of its time
  
  The story starts with an intriguing premise with both 'friends' sharing the same woman but flags badly once this plotline runs out. Candice Bergen ... read more »
  
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  - Bath
  - 10 Sep 2006 at 09:43
- - 3
  - 1
  Intelligent and Humourous pre-cursor to Swingers & Sideways
  
  A very enjoyable look at love through the eyes of two men, from their college days through to married life, affairs and children. Straddling the late 40s, 50s ... read more »
  
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  - McClennan
  - 424 reviews
  - St Helens
  - 29 Jul 2005 at 11:14
- - 3
  - 0
  Young Nicholson
  
  This was early Jack Nicholson and I don't think he was over the moon with the film, but I watched, despite the earlier comments and it was alright without ... read more »
  
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  - Merseyside
  - 02 Feb 2005 at 17:28
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- - 4
  - 1
  LUST VS LOVE
  
  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 »
  
  Report this review
- 67281
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - a customer
  - Saxmundham, England
  - 26 Jan 2005 at 21:53
- - 3
  - 0
  Young Nicholson
  
  This was early Jack Nicholson and I don't think he was over the moon with the film, but I watched, despite the earlier comments and it was alright without ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 69154
- - a customer
  - Merseyside
  - 02 Feb 2005 at 17:28
- - 3
  - 1
  Intelligent and Humourous pre-cursor to Swingers & Sideways
  
  A very enjoyable look at love through the eyes of two men, from their college days through to married life, affairs and children. Straddling the late 40s, 50s ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 128890
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - McClennan
  - 424 reviews
  - St Helens
  - 29 Jul 2005 at 11:14
- - 2
  - 0
  A film about its time and of its time
  
  The story starts with an intriguing premise with both 'friends' sharing the same woman but flags badly once this plotline runs out. Candice Bergen ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 284236
- - a customer
  - Bath
  - 10 Sep 2006 at 09:43
- - 0
  - 0
  Male chauvinist slimeball Jack in its infancy
  
  Male chauvinist slimeball Jack in its infancy. (For more of that, see pretty much any of his eighties movies.) While his character is entertaining on the ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 379464
- - bigbobby
  - 15 reviews
  - Newbury
  - 30 Oct 2006 at 22:13
- - 0
  - 0
  Early role for Carol Kane fans
  
  One of the first appearances in film by Carol Kane who went on to appear in many more films. Though she only appears for about 2 minutes at the end and in a ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 407588
- - a customer
  - Doncaster, England
  - 30 Jan 2007 at 21:27
- - 0
  - 0
  Dull and depressing
  
  This starts off lightly enough and then gets into a darker study of an unhappy womaniser and his empty marriage. I have to say that I found it fairly dull with... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 515892
- - a customer
  - London
  - 21 Jan 2008 at 14:29
- - 0
  - 0
  art
  
  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 »
  
  Report this review
- 572891
- - a customer
  - London
  - 05 Jun 2008 at 19:57
- - 0
  - 0
  'CARNAL KNOWLEDGE'
  
  With this cast how can't you enjoy this film.
  
  Report this review
- 643974
- - a customer
  - Weymouth
  - 14 Oct 2008 at 18:25
- - 0
  - 0
  Carnal Knowledge
  
  Carnal Knowledge
  
  This movie is dull, slow and not really worth the effort to watch, shame because the cast are all credible…
  
  Report this review
- 1010033
- - ian3
  - 538 reviews
  - Salisbury
  - 26 Jun 2011 at 18:49

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Critics' reviews
- 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.
- 31473
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:42
- As a slice of familiar Feiffer cynicism, tracing the arid sex life of two contrasting males from eager college days to... read more on Time Out
- 44722
- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:15

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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, ...