Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice. 1969 Columbia Pictures.
Starring: Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould, Dyan Cannon
Director: Paul Mazursky
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A documentary filmmaker, Bob Sanders (Culp) and his wife Carol (Wood) attend a weekend retreat involving group therapy and self-discovery. Bob is there mainly because he wants to make a documentary about the process. What happens is, they have an epiphany, helped along by Bob's confession of an extra-marital affair, and Carol's appreciation of his honesty. Feeling enlightened and free, Bob and Carol come home, wanting to embrace free love and complete honesty. Their best friends Ted and Alice Henderson (Gould & Cannon) are both curious and repulsed by their friends' new feelings, and naturally, Bob and Carol want their friends to think and feel the same way they do now.
Ted and Alice do get caught up in this, and both couples are convinced that mutual love and honesty depends upon them trading partners.
This film was pretty shocking and bold for 1969, and it still holds up well today forty years later. Recommended movie.
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