
Documentary-filmmaker Bob Sanders and his wife Carol attend a group-therapy session that serves as the backdrop for the film's opening scenes. Returning to their Los Angeles home, the newly "enlightened" couple chastise their closest friends, Ted and Alice, for not coming to grips with their true feelings. Bob insists that everyone "feel" rather than intellectualize their emotions, and Carol pronounces "that's beautiful" after anyone says anything even remotely personal. Ted ... (Full plot summary below)
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Documentary-filmmaker Bob Sanders and his wife Carol attend a group-therapy session that serves as the backdrop for the film's opening scenes. Returning to their Los Angeles home, the newly "enlightened" couple chastise their closest friends, Ted and Alice, for not coming to grips with their true feelings. Bob insists that everyone "feel" rather than intellectualize their emotions, and Carol pronounces "that's beautiful" after anyone says anything even remotely personal. Ted and Alice humor their friends, but a good-natured sexual tension is obviously at work among the foursome.
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe genius of Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice is that it understands the peculiar nature of the moral crisis for Americans in this age group, and understands that the way to consider it is in a comedy. |
| CinePassionFernando F. CroceBenignly erected on knowing observation and flossy anecdote, Mazursky's cultural mood-ring merrily mingles mod flash with Old Hollywood |
| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonMazursky was lucky to get four such excellent performers working on his project, for the movie lives and dies based on their ability to quietly suggest the inner workings of a human mind. |
| The New YorkerPauline KaelOnce the pop sensibilities are out of the way, this clever foursome becomes more than the sum of its part. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumThe results are pretty obnoxious and only intermittently funny, but certainly characteristic. |
| User ReviewCody GBrilliant! I thought it was very ahead of its time, in terms of the wife-swapping and the changing attitudes regarding marriage and courtship in the late 60s. Clearly, this movie is a product of the sexual revolution. |
| User ReviewMitch M"Funny and serious, exactly how the life is", Paul Mazursky |
| User ReviewMar TExtremely dated and those under 30 (or even under 40) will almost likely NOT get it, but a very well done satire of when the late '60s counterculture reached the suburbs. It's worth mentioning that, while many films have been made more recently that spoofed the '60s, this is one of the few -- perhaps the only one -- that did so *during* the '60s. The scene with an uptight Dyan Cannon talking to her psychiatrist discussing euphemisms people use for their genitals is hilarious. |
| User ReviewMary Mthis is a funny Natalie Wood movie!!!!!!!!! |
| User ReviewSunil JMost uncomfortable movie ever. Quite humorous in some spots. Who knew Robert Culp could be so creepy as an aging hippie? |