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Summary: This film tells the truth. Controversial at its time.
Review: This film tells the truth. Not such an old film, the mature adult situations are still happening today even in this decade. Very controversial film of its time. Almost was not released and could not be shown on Network TV at all. Finally in the mid-1980's it was finally allowed to be shown on the then-independent KTLA Channel 5 Los Angeles tv station. Hard-hitting drama about two male roomates. One man (played by Art Gurfunkel as "Sandy") is more sensitive to woman while the other man played by Jack Nicholson feels so macho he must have more than tweleve women a year. When Art falls in love with Candice Bergen (she plays a virgin) it starts as a good friendship until Jack Nicholson buds in. He secretly makes a phone call to her without Art knowing. Jack dates Candice and she loses her virginity by the macho man who can get any woman he wants anywhere, anyway. (So why, Candice?) When Jack talks about his "girlfriend", Art dos not know it's the same woman he loves. When Candice decides to break it off with Jack, Jack becomes a cad and thinks he can break it off first. Well, Jack now has to keep his mouth shut whenever Art and Candice are in the same room together with him. Jack finally comes to the realization that he is getting older and can't get as many woman as he used to. He feels bad when he sees Candice and Art together (metal break-through finally!) Then, the sizzling Ann-Margret enters the picture. Who becomes the more mature man? Who is given LOVE, not just LUST & LEAVE. Some men will find this film a bit hard to swallow. Some women who see this film will say "AMEN!" by the end of it. There is a lesson to be learned here. Get the message of the film. Carol Kane and Rita Moreno are also in the cast. No special features on this DVD. Wide-Screen and Full-Screen available on either side of DVD.
Rating:
Summary: This film tells the truth. Controversial at its time.
Review: This film tells the truth. Not such an old film, the mature adult situations are still happening today even in this decade. Very controversial film of its time. Almost was not released and could not be shown on Network TV at all. Finally in the mid-1980's it was finally allowed to be shown on the then-independent KTLA Channel 5 Los Angeles tv station. Hard-hitting drama about two male roomates. One man (played by Art Gurfunkel as "Sandy") is more sensitive to woman while the other man played by Jack Nicholson feels so macho he must have more than tweleve women a year. When Art falls in love with Candice Bergen (she plays a virgin) it starts as a good friendship until Jack Nicholson buds in. He secretly makes a phone call to her without Art knowing. Jack dates Candice and she loses her virginity by the macho man who can get any woman he wants anywhere, anyway. (So why, Candice?) When Jack talks about his "girlfriend", Art dos not know it's the same woman he loves. When Candice decides to break it off with Jack, Jack becomes a cad and thinks he can break it off first. Well, Jack now has to keep his mouth shut whenever Art and Candice are in the same room together with him. Jack finally comes to the realization that he is getting older and can't get as many woman as he used to. He feels bad when he sees Candice and Art together (metal break-through finally!) Then, the sizzling Ann-Margret enters the picture. Who becomes the more mature man? Who is given LOVE, not just LUST & LEAVE. Some men will find this film a bit hard to swallow. Some women who see this film will say "AMEN!" by the end of it. There is a lesson to be learned here. Get the message of the film. Carol Kane and Rita Moreno are also in the cast. No special features on this DVD. Wide-Screen and Full-Screen available on either side of DVD.
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Summary: Nicholson is just fantastic, as always!
Review: This film, you can say, was probably ahead of its time, since that's the way society has turned out to be. Let's just go for the sex in a relationship, and that will be great. We all know its not. This is what we see in Carnal Knowledge. Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel are roommates in college, and are trying to experience the rite of passage : sex for the first time. Garfunkel goes for Candice Bergen, who he never scores with. Throughout the whole time, though, Nicholson sneakly does with Bergen. He really is a ba----- to do that to a friend. Bergen appears as a good woman at the beginning, but she really isn't is she after sneakly going with Nicholson while being with Garfunkel. But the story gets even more powerful when they are out of college and Nicholson finds Ann-Margret, "Bobby". He goes for her, because of her body, and they're in bed the first night they meet. That's trouble right there, since that's how many live in today's society, having one-night stands. Nicholson and Margret live with each other, and eventually get married. Later, we here Nicholson say when he's showing a slide of Margret, "That's Bobby, who conned me into marrying her." He later went to say he now pays here alamony. He should have thought about that before a one-night stand. Art Garfunkel marries Bergen, and by the end of the fim when there older, we see a third partner he has who is young, played by Carol Kane. Throughout the film, when director Mike Nichols is switching through different times in the men's lives, we see a ballerina type figure turning around on the ice. It represents what Nicholson and Garfunkel were doing the whole time we got to know them, playing on "ice", with woman they met. All the performances are superb, and particularly, you'll never forget Nicholson, and even Ann-Margret who sounds like a whore with a heart of gold, but really isn't. A masterpiece of a film.
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Summary: Good Trend-setting Movie
Review: This movie was one of the first movies to really push the envelope when it came to sex and relationships. The movie explored the relationship between two college buddies as they started out their single lives just trying to get laid. As time went on, one of them decided to get married and experience the "typical" life(Art Garfunkel), while the other one went about just trying to get laid(Jack Nicholson). The idea of "looks are everything" was portraied by Jack Nicholson, who just wanted a girl that was well-endowed. Art Garfunkel on the other hand was more sensitive to what a woman wanted, but still did not fully understand what love is. Both characters had very different ideas on what they wanted in a woman, but both were unable to appreciate what they had, and often went looking elsewhere. One of the most important lines in the movie comes in the opening credits where the two debate if it is better to love and not be loved back, or to be loved and not love them. This is the theme the director uses to define the movie. Nicholson is loved, but has no love to give. Garfunkel loves, but is not loved back. It is interesting to watch their lives play out as they grow older, but seems to be missing something that would make it a classic. I think this could be helped with a better ending, more closure to their lives.B+
Rating:
Summary: Good Trend-setting Movie
Review: This movie was one of the first movies to really push the envelope when it came to sex and relationships. The movie explored the relationship between two college buddies as they started out their single lives just trying to get laid. As time went on, one of them decided to get married and experience the "typical" life(Art Garfunkel), while the other one went about just trying to get laid(Jack Nicholson). The idea of "looks are everything" was portraied by Jack Nicholson, who just wanted a girl that was well-endowed. Art Garfunkel on the other hand was more sensitive to what a woman wanted, but still did not fully understand what love is. Both characters had very different ideas on what they wanted in a woman, but both were unable to appreciate what they had, and often went looking elsewhere. One of the most important lines in the movie comes in the opening credits where the two debate if it is better to love and not be loved back, or to be loved and not love them. This is the theme the director uses to define the movie. Nicholson is loved, but has no love to give. Garfunkel loves, but is not loved back. It is interesting to watch their lives play out as they grow older, but seems to be missing something that would make it a classic. I think this could be helped with a better ending, more closure to their lives. B+
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Summary: Coming to the screens of film schools everywhere...
Review: What I found so impressive about this in the early 70's is a mystery--unless it's Ann-Margret's statuesque figure. Most of the dialog is better suited for writer Jules Feiffer's stylish cartoon characters. Even Jack Nicholson can't keep this tub afloat, although it's fun to see mannerisms and intonations which were used to perfection only 3 years later in the incomparable "Chinatown."
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