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Carnal Knowledge
1971 1h 38m R
Drama
,
Romance
,
Comedy
6.9
88%
72%
67%
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The concurrent sexual lives of best friends Jonathan and Sandy are presented, those lives which are affected by the sexual mores of the time and their own temperament, especially in relation to the respective women who end up in their lives.
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Directed By
Mike Nichols
Written By
Jules Feiffer
Studio
AVCO Embassy Pictures
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Cast of Carnal Knowledge
Jack Nicholson
Jonathan
Candice Bergen
Susan
Art Garfunkel
Sandy
Ann-Margret
Bobbie
Rita Moreno
Louise
Cynthia O'Neal
Cindy
Carol Kane
Jennifer
Colleen Murphy
Mama
Carnal Knowledge Reviews
New York Times
Bosley Crowther
In addition to being the toughest comedy since Little Murders, and the most imaginative comedy since Catch 22, Carnal Knowledge represents a nearly ideal collaboration of directorial and writing talents.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Stays within the universe of its characters, and inhabits it totally. And within that universe, men and woman fail to find sexual and personal happiness because they can't break through their patterns of treating each other as objects.
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Cole Smithey
Ah, the sweet smell of '70s American cinema when anything was possible.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
A pretentious and uneven provocative moralistic adult drama about coping with the "sexual revolution" among the middle-class males.
Common Sense Media
Barbara Shulgasser
Frank '70s coming-of-age tale has lots of sex, profanity.
JWR
James Wegg
Brilliant acting!
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Emanuel Levy
Misunderstood by critics and viewers, Nichols' satire of male chauvinism is by turns witty, provocative, funny, and depressing. The film was so controversial in 1971 that it went all the way to the Supreme Court for obscenity charges.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Ken Hanke
The perforances are impressive, but the freshness is gone.
Newsweek
Paul D. Zimmerman
Nichols has broken thoroughly now with his stage beginnings, integrating camera and action easily, using space and silence with the fluency of a man at home behind a lens.
Variety
Variety Staff
A rather superficial and limited probe of American male sexual hypocrisies.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
The picture has its moments of chilling insight, though essentially it is one more quaint early-70s stab at an American art cinema that never materialized.
Turner Classic Movies Online
Sean Axmaker
... an acerbic and, in many ways, dispiriting portrait of masculinity and male sexuality in the post-World War II culture.
Cleveland Press
Tony Mastroianni
It leans so heavily on its sensational subject matter that for many, if not most, the point will be lost.
TV Guide
Deeply felt critique of middle-class sexual politics, and one of the better films of formerly interesting director Mike Nichols.
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