   carnal knowledge is a 1971 american comedy-drama film directed by mike nichols and written by jules feiffer. it stars jack nicholson, art garfunkel, ann-margret and candice bergen. ==plot== sandy and jonathan fuerst are roommates at amherst college whose lives are explored and seem to offer a contrast to one another. spanning a 25-year period, from their college years in the late 1940s to middle age in the early 1970s, the film explores their relationships with various women. ==cast== * jack nicholson as jonathan fuerst * arthur garfunkel as sandy * candice bergen as susan * ann-margret as bobbie * rita moreno as louise * carol kane as jennifer * cynthia o'neal as cindy ==production== the script was originally written as a play. jules feiffer sent it to mike nichols, who thought it would work better as a film.nichols meets jules feiffer: mike nichols by a. h. weiler. new york times (1923âcurrent file) [new york, n.y] 26 oct 1969: d17. ==legal problems== the changes in the morals of american society of the 1960s and 1970s and the general receptiveness by the public to frank discussion of sexual issues was sometimes at odds with local community standards. a theatre in albany, georgia, showed the film. on january 13, 1972, the local police served a search warrant on the theatre, and seized the film. in march 1972, the theatre manager, mr. jenkins, was convicted of the crime of "distributing obscene material". his conviction was upheld by the supreme court of georgia. on june 24, 1974, the u.s. supreme court found that the state of georgia had gone too far in classifying material as obscene in view of its prior decision in miller v. california,  (the miller standard), and overturned the conviction.[http://explore.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/show/censored/walkthrough/film2 censored films and television
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