Carnal Knowledge

Two lifelong friends navigate complex sexual encounters and emotional entanglements, wrestling with societal norms and personal desires.

Cast

Jack Nicholson

as Jonathan

Candice Bergen

as Susan

Art Garfunkel

as Sandy

Ann-Margret

as Bobbie

Rita Moreno

as Louise

Cynthia O'Neal

as Cindy

Carol Kane

as Jennifer

Sheri Jackson

as Mama

Reviews

Wuchak

**_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 cas...

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