Top billed cast

1. 

   Jack Nicholson

   Jonathan

2. 

   Candice Bergen

   Susan

3. 

   Art Garfunkel

   Sandy

4. 

   Ann-Margret

   Bobbie

5. 

   Rita Moreno

   Louise

6. 

   Cynthia O'Neal

   Cindy

7. 

   Carol Kane

   Jennifer

8. 

   Sheri Jackson

   Mama

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Reviews

A review by Wuchak

Written by Wuchak on 2025-05-01

**_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, it’s a sometimes depressing, sometimes amusing chr...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$5,000,000.00

Revenue
$28,623,900.00

Keywords

• infidelity
• new york city
• eroticism
• coming of age
• friends
• extramarital affair
• sexual confusion
• sexual awakening
• college friends
• college roommate
• comedy of manners