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1969
R
Columbia Pictures
1 h 45 m

1969
R
Columbia Pictures
1 h 45 m

Summary Documentary film-maker Bob Sanders and his wife Carol attend a group therapy session that serves as the backdrop for the opening scenes of the film. Returning to their Los Angeles home, the newly "enlightened" couple chastise their closest friends, Ted and Alice, for not coming to grips with their true feelings. Bob insists that everyone...

Directed By: Paul Mazursky

Written By: Larry Tucker, Paul Mazursky

1969
R
Columbia Pictures
1 h 45 m

1969
R
Columbia Pictures
1 h 45 m

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews

72

User Score Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings

6.8

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Summary Documentary film-maker Bob Sanders and his wife Carol attend a group therapy session that serves as the backdrop for the opening scenes of the film. Returning to their Los Angeles home, the newly "enlightened" couple chastise their closest friends, Ted and Alice, for not coming to grips with their true feelings. Bob insists that everyone...

Directed By: Paul Mazursky

Written By: Larry Tucker, Paul Mazursky

Where to Watch

Critic Reviews

Metascore

Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews

57% Positive
4 Reviews

43% Mixed
3 Reviews

0% Negative
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Metascore

Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews

57% Positive
4 Reviews

43% Mixed
3 Reviews

0% Negative
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The acting is superb. Cannon proves an expert comedienne. She and Gould practically steal the film, although admittedly they have the best lines. Wood and Culp give equally fine performances....The film is almost flawless, presenting the issues in a pleasing, entertaining and thought-provoking manner.

Chicago Sun-Times

The genius of Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice is that it understands the peculiar nature of the moral crisis for Americans in this age group, and understands that the way to consider it is in a comedy.

By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW

The scenes involving Gould and Cannon are small miracles of timing; Cannon (who looks a bit like Lauren Bacall and a bit like Jeanne Moreau, but the wrong bits) is also remarkably funny in her scenes with an analyst (played by the analyst Donald F. Muhich). You can feel something new in the comic spirit of this film - in the way Mazursky gets laughs by the rhythm of cliches, defenses, and little verbal aggressions.

By Pauline Kael FULL REVIEW

Too often dismissed as modish, it's in fact a mostly very funny, insightful, gently romantic account of well-meaning couples.

TV Guide Magazine

The dialog is wonderful, but at times director Mazursky sacrifices the human element of his story to indulgent camerawork.

Once the pop sensibilities are out of the way, this clever foursome becomes more than the sum of its part.

The results are pretty obnoxious and only intermittently funny, but certainly characteristic.

By Jonathan Rosenbaum FULL REVIEW

User Reviews

User Score

Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings

80% Positive
4 Ratings

0% Mixed
0 Ratings

20% Negative
1 Rating

User Reviews

User Score

Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings

80% Positive
4 Ratings

0% Mixed
0 Ratings

20% Negative
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Details

Production Company Columbia Pictures, Frankovich Productions

Release Date Oct 8, 1969

Duration 1 h 45 m

Rating R

Genres

Tagline Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice request the company of your pleasure.

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Awards

Academy Awards, USA

• 4 Nominations

Golden Globes, USA

• 2 Nominations

New York Film Critics Circle Awards

• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations

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