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Overview
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Director:
Writer:
Jules Feiffer (written by)
Release Date:
5 November 1971 (Sweden)
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Plot:
The film traces the sexual and emotional confusion of two men from their Amherst College days in the fifties through the Kennedy sixties...
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar.
Another 2 wins
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3 nominations
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(6 articles)
What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #11
(From Rope Of Silicon. 4 October 2009, 4:04 AM, PDT)
Mike Nichols Dips in 'Deep Water'
(From Rope Of Silicon. 17 August 2009, 1:31 AM, PDT)
(From Rope Of Silicon. 4 October 2009, 4:04 AM, PDT)
Mike Nichols Dips in 'Deep Water'
(From Rope Of Silicon. 17 August 2009, 1:31 AM, PDT)
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It's Not A Kids' Movie
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Jack Nicholson | ... | Jonathan |
 | Candice Bergen | ... | Susan |
 | Art Garfunkel | ... | Sandy (as Arthur Garfunkel) |
 | Ann-Margret | ... | Bobbie |
 | Rita Moreno | ... | Louise |
| Cynthia O'Neal | ... | Cindy |
 | Carol Kane | ... | Jennifer |
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98 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:12 |
UK:X |
Argentina:16 |
Canada:18A (video rating) |
Australia:MA (cable rating) |
Australia:R (original rating) |
Finland:K-16 |
France:-12 |
Sweden:11 |
UK:18 (video rating) |
USA:R |
West Germany:16
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After auditioning several actresses for the role of Bobbi, Mike Nichols agreed to see Ann-Margret, whom he remembered being very impressed with in Kitten with a Whip (1964).
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Quotes:
Jonathan:
You want a job? I got a job for you. Fix up this pigsty! You get a pretty Goddammed good salary for testing out this bed all day! You want an extra fifty dollars a week, try vacuuming! You want an extra hundred, make this Goddammed bed! Try opening some Goddammed windows! That's why you can't stand up in here, the Goddammed place smells like a coffin!
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Referenced in Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1 (1999) (TV)
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It's depressing to see what a low rating Carnal Knowledge gets. Jules Feiffer, the brilliant cartoonist, wrote an extraordinary script for this film. I loved the dialog so much I found the script on Alibris and read it immediately.
This is a dark movie. Not that it's violent or bloody, but its take on men vs. women relationships is bleak, blunt, and accurate. Jack Nicholson is charismatic and smart in his role, showing the misery at the heart of a cynic.
As others have written, it's not a kids' movie. It's not even a young adults' movie-- I was bored when I first saw it, at 21. It's an "adult movie" in the non-euphemistic sense of that phrase, an adult movie about the mortality of romance