Culp and natalie wood return home determined to embrace complete openness. Overview after a weekend selfhelp trip, bob and his wife carol return home feeling enlightened from their getaway and decide to share their experiences with their best friends ted and alice. Ted and alice humor their friends as the four explore their feelings for each other on an emotional and on a sexual level. Bob and carol and ted and alice isnt really about wife swapping at all, but about the epidemic of moral earnestness thats sweeping our society right now.
Documentaryfilmmaker bob sanders and his wife carol attend a grouptherapy session that serves as the backdrop for the films opening scenes. After attending a weekend selfhelp selfdiscovery getaway, bob and carol feel newly enlightened, and. The scene where bob admits to carol that he had an affair and instead of being angered by it she accepts it, which turns them on enough that they end up making love on their bathroom floor is funny as is the opposite reaction that ted and alice have when carol tells them the good news. Tales of bob and carol and ted and alice an archival interview with the great writerdirector. Not wanting to be rude, the hendersons play along, but some latent sexual tension among. And thats really the soul of the movie, right there thats what the whole thing, you realize by the end, has been building toward. After the ultra sophisticated couple, bob a filmmaker and wife, carol attend a secluded therapy group only to observe they become modernized in their sexual thinking and behavior. After attending a weekend selfhelp selfdiscovery session, bob and carol feel newly enlightened, and want their friends, ted and alice, to feel the same way. Consider the possibilities, read the ads for paul mazurskys 1969 satirical comedy about what happens when the sexual revolution hits affluent bourgeois life.
After going to a group therapy retreat, bob and carol start to explore a new openness in their relationship. Most of the subtext about wifeswapping was eliminated, predictably since it was 1973 and they couldnt really explore issues like that on network television. With natalie wood, robert culp, elliott gould, dyan cannon. Bob and carol sanders are best friends with ted and alice henderson. For some curious reason, we suddenly seem compelled to tell the truth in our personal relationships. Bob and carol and ted and alice is a hilarious and clever comedy that is also very genuine and lovable.
The cinematography for the film was by charles lang. Directed by 1 writing credits 2 cast 76 produced by 2 music by 1 cinematography by 1 film editing by 1 art direction by 1 set decoration by 1 costume design by 1 makeup department 2. After pushing their sexual boundaries with other people, the foursome decide to. Documentary filmmaker bob saunders and his wife carol attend a group therapy session that serves as the backdrop for the opening scenes of the film. I was astounded to see that the whole movie holds up very well. Documentary filmmaker bob sanders and his wife carol attend a group therapy session that serves as the backdrop for the opening scenes of the film. Documentaryfilmmaker bob sanders and his wife carol attend a. A lighthearted picture of middleaged love and friendship. The film received four academy award nominations, including. Can bob and carols new thinking rub off onto best friends, ted and alice. A oncemust for its place in cinema history due to its attempt, at least, at handling a touchy subject. The original music score was composed by quincy jones. When he filmed the anxiety of bob and carol and ted and alice, or the sudden changes in the life of erica jill clayburgh in an unmarried woman, he was filming his own anxiety.
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