Carnal Knowledge

  • Drama
  • Romance
  • Comedy
6/30/1971
98

Its time has come.

Two lifelong friends navigate complex sexual encounters and emotional entanglements, wrestling with societal norms and personal desires.

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Revenue:
$28,623,900
Budget:
$5,000,000

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  • Wuchak

    Psychological study of the romantic lives of two males over the course of 25 years

    In the late 1940s, Two roommates at Amherst College (Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel) exchange personal info about their sextivities with various women as the years progress to the early 70s. The female cast includes Candice Bergen, Ann-Margret, Cynthia O'Neal, Carol Kane and Rita Moreno.

    Carnal Knowledge (1971) is not a conventional look at college life in the manner of the later Small Circle of Friends or The 70s. Rather, its a sometimes depressing, sometimes amusing chronicling of the evolution and devolution of the sexual lives of two college friends, one a smooth-talking narcissist (Nicholson) and the other a sensitive nice guy (Garfunkel). ...

    May 1, 2025
  • Geronimo1967

    Jonathan (Jack Nicholson) is having a pep talk with his bright-eyed roommate Sandy (Art Garfunkel) about the latters nervous interest in Susan (Candice Bergen). Their conversations now proceed to give us a blow by blow description of the evolution of their burgeoning romance, only for Jonathan to jump the gun and start an affair of his own with her! They keep that a secret from Sandy for a while, and indeed the three become a regular social group, but all the while duplicity is never far away. Indeed, throughout their lives it seems that one is borrowing from another - until Bobbie (Ann-Margret) appears on the scene and offers Jonathan a chance to shack-up with someone. Shes a larger than life character who, in reality, craves certainty. An...

    September 20, 2025

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