Aug 14, 2016 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. After attending a weekend selfhelp selfdiscovery session bob plans to make a documentary film on the subject, bob and carol feel newly enlightened, and want ted and alice to feel the same way. After attending a weekend selfhelp selfdiscovery getaway, bob and. To the respective curiosity and repulsion of their married best friends, ted elliott gould and alice dyan cannon, bob and carol have affairs that they happily reveal to everyone.
Bob and carol sanders are best friends with ted and alice henderson. The movie retains a certain appeal due to the actors excellent work. After attending a weekend selfhelp selfdiscovery getaway, bob and carol feel newly enlightened, and. Can bob and carol s new thinking rub off onto best friends, ted and alice. Filmed at the lee strasberg theater and film institute, hollywood. It was an interesting movie and presents a good time capsule of the. After attending a weekend selfhelp selfdiscovery session, bob and carol feel newly. Dyan cannon celebrity profile check out the latest dyan cannon photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at rotten tomatoes. Ted and alice humor their friends, but a goodnatured sexual tension is obviously at work among the foursome. 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. Bob insists that everyone feel rather than intellectualize their emotions, and. With the sexual revolution of the 60s, there of course would have to be a movie about sex. 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. Bob and carol sanders are a pair of freespirited 20somethings, ted and alice henderson are their repressed 30something neighbors.
Most of the subtext about wifeswapping was eliminated, predictably since it was 1973 and they couldnt really explore issues like that on network television. In practice, its a bearpoking examination of the mores that supposedly undergirded the 1960s and beyond. The original music score was composed by quincy jones. The sanders have a precocious young son and the hendersons have a snarky tween daughter. When bob and carol flaunt their new marital openness. Making an impressive, highprofile directorial debut after success as a screenwriter, paul. Bob and carol saunders attend a group therapy session at a remote cabin location. Intermittently funny, this movie concerns mateswapping among a quartet of best friends.
Bob and carol encourage the other couple to adopt their lifestyle. For some curious reason, we suddenly seem compelled to tell the truth in our personal relationships. Natalie wood and robert culp play a newly enlightened married couple experimenting in sexual. Upon returning from another trip, bob finds that carol spent the previous night with horst, the tennis instructor from their club. Bob works for a tv network, ted is a lawyer, and both of their wives are homemakers. Bob insists that everyone feel rather than intellectualize their emotions, and carol pronounces thats beautiful after anyone says anything even remotely personal. Natalie wood and robert culp played carol and bob, a pretentious wealthy and bored couple in southern california. Ten thousand years ago maybe 20,000 humans swung toward monogamy. I saw this movie back when it came out in 1969 and, being young, didnt realize it was supposed to be a comedy. This has been in storage shipped with usps parcel ground mail. 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. Though deemed quaint by contemporary standards, the film was considered racy in its day, and it serves as a time capsule of sexual mores in the late 1960s. Rodney dangerfield at his best on the tonight show starring johnny carson 1983 duration. Couples bob and carol sanders and ted and alice henderson are best friends.
Not wanting to be rude, the hendersons play along, but some latent sexual tension among. Deeply moved by bob s frankness and trust, carol repeats bob s confession to ted and alice, but the revelation leaves alice so aghast that she feels compelled to visit a psychiatrist to discuss her sexual life with ted. A tribute for the paul mazurskydirected 1969 satirical sex comedy drama starring natalie wood, robert culp, elliot gould, dyan cannon, and more. There they encounter other couples who learn to become open with their feelings and sexuality. Having visited a therapy group, bob and carol sanders robert culp and natalie wood have become more open about their sexuality, and are identifying more with the counterculture in.