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Release Date: 1971

Cast: Ann-Margret, Candice Bergen, Cynthia O'Neal, Jack Nicholson, Rita Moreno, Art Garfunkel, Carol Kane

Categories: Movies, Sex comedy, Comedy of manners, Comedy-drama, Comedy, Coming of age, Romantic drama, Romance Film, New Hollywood

Carnal Knowledge is a 1971 American drama film. The film was directed by Mike Nichols and written by Jules Feiffer. Sandy (Art Garfunkel) and Jonathan (Jack Nicholson) are roommates at Amherst College whose lives are explored and seem to offer a contrast to one another. Spanning a 25-year period, from their college years in the mid-1940s to middle aged adulthood in the early 1970s, the film explores their relationships with various women (played by Candice Bergen, Ann-Margret, Carol Kane, Cynthia O'Neal, and Rita Moreno). A synopsis of the film which appeared in the Saturday Review by... MORE

Carnal Knowledge is a 1971 American drama film. The film was directed by Mike Nichols and written by Jules Feiffer. Sandy (Art Garfunkel) and Jonathan (Jack Nicholson) are roommates at Amherst College whose lives are explored and seem to offer a contrast to one another. Spanning a 25-year period, from their college years in the mid-1940s to middle aged adulthood in the early 1970s, the film explores their relationships with various women (played by Candice Bergen, Ann-Margret, Carol Kane, Cynthia O'Neal, and Rita Moreno). A synopsis of the film which appeared in the Saturday Review by Hollis Alpert was later quoted in a legal proceeding as follows: [It is basically a story] of two young college men, roommates and lifelong friends forever preoccupied with their sex lives. Both are first met as virgins. Nicholson is the more knowledgeable and attractive of the two; speaking colloquially, he is a burgeoning bastard. Art Garfunkel is his friend, the nice but troubled guy straight out of those early Feiffer cartoons, but real. He falls in love with the lovely Susan (Candice Bergen) and unknowingly shares her with his college buddy. As the "safer" one of the two, he is selected by Susan LESS