Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice Movie Review (1. For some curious reason, we suddenly seem compelled to tell the truth in our personal relationships. Advertisement. Used to be, in the long- ago days of romanticism in the movies, that a girl would peer soulfully into a boy's eyes and say, . By then they've got a car and a house and kids, and who knows? If they start telling the truth too much they might have to decide who keeps the kids. That's the dilemma of the in- between generation, the one we overlook in the generation gap, the couples who are too young to be the parents of the revolutionary kids, and too old to be the kids. The genius of . What is comedy, after all, but tragedy seen from the outside? Swept up in the moment, Bob admits he's had an affair. Carol thinks it's wonderful that he's honest enough to admit it to her. His admission sets off a wave of honesty that infects Ted (Elliott Gould) and Alice (Dyan Cannon), their best friends. The two couples gradually become convinced that mutual love and honesty depends upon them trading partners. The best scene in the movie is the bedroom scene between Elliott Gould and Dyan Cannon. Gould emerges, not so much a star, more of a . Robert Culp is the essence of the sagging, dissipated early- middle- age swinger; sort of a young Peter Lawford. Dyan Cannon is better than Natalie Wood, and Natalie Wood is better than I expected. Some critics have called the ending (when the two couples do not trade partners after all) a cop- out. It's consistent with the situation and the development of the characters, and an orgy at the end would have buried the movie's small, but poignant, message. It's a message, incidentally, that I think was missed by the feminist who sent me a postcard saying. This was the first film to really delve into the world of free love in the sixties, while also showing its appeal to the suburban set. Couple Bob and Carol see their sex life becoming uninhibited after a weekend romp with.
Following the credits, Greg Mullavey introduces himself to the group, Robert Culp and Natalie Wood, as Bob and Carol, Diane Berghoff as Myrna, in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, 1969, directed by Paul Mazursky from his.
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