Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice

Introduction by writer Sammy Wasson, author of Paul on Mazursky.

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Bob and Carol Sanders (Robert Culp and Natalie Wood) take their bourgeois marriage up to the Esalen Institute for a weekend of encounter groups, scream therapies and really far out Seventies honesty.

When they return to Los Angeles, everything’s beautiful. But Ted and Alice Henderson (Elliot Gould and Dyan Cannon), their best friends, just don’t get it.

When Carol proudly announces that Bob had an affair (“Isn’t it beautiful?”), Alice really loses her patience and, soon after, her sex drive, while Ted entertains erotic fantasies. There’s something seriously wrong between them—maybe Bob and Carol have a point? Bob certainly thinks so, despite some bumpiness when he comes home to find Carol postcoital with Horst, her tennis instructor.

So naturally, when Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice find their way into a Vegas hotel room, a ménage a quatre is on everyone’s minds. Once the topic comes up, though, everyone chokes. Everyone, that is, except for newly groovy Alice, who strips and screams “Orgy, orgy, orgy!” One thing leads to another, and...

Director: Paul Mazursky. 105 min. 1969. 35mm.

Part of the Paul Mazursky series.

 

Brief Biography
Sammy Wasson is the author of Fifth Avenue, 5 AM: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and The Dawn of the Modern Woman; A Splurch in the Kisser: The Movies of Blake Edwards; and Paul on Mazursky. He's working on a biography of Bob Fosse.

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