Carnal Knowledge (1971)

Mike Nichols’ Expert Demystification of Sex and Relationships...

Nice guy Sandy (Art Garfunkel) and charming schemer Jonathan (Jack Nicholson) meet as college roommates in the late 1940s. Sandy woos and eventually marries the sweetly virginal Susan (Candice Bergen) without knowing that she had cheated on him with Jonathan. Years later, his marriage faltering, Sandy attempts to mimic Jonathan's promiscuous womanizing, while the misogynistic Jonathan finally tries his hand at monogamy with the gorgeous but emotionally needy Bobbie (Ann-Margret)

"... an acerbic and, in many ways, dispiriting portrait of masculinity and male sexuality in the post-World War II culture"

"... Unnerving, upsetting and hard to forget..."

"... Carnal Knowledge may be an acid bath, but it strips a certain kind of man right down to the bone..."