Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice is a 1969 dramedy directed by Paul Mazursky. It starred Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould and Dyan Cannon.

Plot summary

After a weekend of beautiful emotional honesty at an Esalen-type retreat, the ultra sophisticated couple Bob and Carol Sanders return to their well-heeled Los Angeles life determined to apply the principles of free love and complete openness to their marriage. To the respective curiosity and the repulsion of their married best friends Ted and Alice Henderson, Bob and Carol have affairs that they happily reveal to everyone. Inspired by all that openness during the quartet's trip to Las Vegas, Ted admits an affair of his own provoking the outraged Alice to demand that this new ethos be taken to its obvious conclusion: a mate-sharing foursome. Once they are bedded down and ready to go, however they start to have second thoughts.

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