The film follows two lifelong friends, (Jack Nicholson) and Sandy (Art Garfunkel), from their college days at Amherst in the late 1940s through to middle age in the early 1970s.
Carnal Knowledge (1971) is a darkly humorous American drama directed by Mike Nichols and written by Jules Feiffer that explores the changing sexual mores of American men over several decades. Carnal Knowledge (1971)
: The film concludes with both men physically aged and emotionally bankrupt, having failed to find genuine connection despite their lifelong pursuit of "carnal knowledge". Key Cast & Characters The film follows two lifelong friends, (Jack Nicholson)