A chillingly accurate and cynical account of the sexual mores and hang-ups of American males over two decades.

"Where the fuck is my shoe horn?!" Ha ha, this movie is so great. Nicholson is an amazing womanizing prick and Garfunkel is surprisingly good. Definitely underrated.

The tumultuous sex lives of two men leave them ultimately enveloped either in cynicism or self-delusion. Jules Feiffer's uneven script doesn't always reach the archetypal heights it aims for, but Mike Nichols directs it brilliantly, and the cast is superb: Jack Nicholson as the brooding Jonathan, Art Garfunkel as the fatuous Sandy, Candice Bergen and Ann-Margret as the ill-treated Susan and Bobbie; Rita Moreno caps it off with a stunning monologue. Marvelous cinematography by Giuseppe Rotunno.

There's something glib about the way this minimalistic, play-like, take on relationships divides humanity into 2 groups: jaded takers & desperately naive suckers. People tend 2 be a little more complicated & the film's unflagging emphasis on humanity's uglier aspects can feel like the sophomoric wisdom of smug college students 2 the less pessimistic. The thing is: the dialogue & the actors r so brilliantly put together that these characters & their relationships never seem less than real.

A movie that asks the question: What does it mean to be in a relationship? What is important? Love? Commitment? Compatibility? Romance? Sex? It also puts into perspective what we as a society place value on. Everyone's knows the character of Jonathan: the misogynist who can't live with women but can't live without them. Jack Nicholson gives us an intense performance as usual.

Under-appreciated.

Carnal Knowlege makes a great companion piece with that other cynical relationship movie: Closer. They were both directed by Mike Nichols. (No surprise there.) The tone is fairly brutal & uncompromising but it's darkly funny as well. Ann-Margret is brilliant as the sexpot Bobbie, who Jack Nicholson seduces & then proceeds to grind down.

True to form for Feiffer, funny and bone-cynical throughout

A good movie about sex and relationships; it starts out really funny, and over the course of the movie steers more and more into drama until the very end. Not exceptional, but worth a look.

It's obvious that Jonathan is pretty screwy, but don't let that obscure the fact that so are most of the other characters, especially Sandy.

The directional effort is amazing, but the plot itself bored me a lot.