Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
1969, 104 min.
Directed by Paul Mazursky, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould, Dyan Cannon.

Mazursky’s satire of sexual attitudes skewers the liberal line of thought regarding the pleasures of free love. A hip, rich couple (Wood and Culp) introduce Gould and Cannon to the joys of swinging and other sex games. The last laugh is on them. Mazursky’s debut feature is just as trenchant as it ever was.

This article appears in July 30 • 1999 (Cover).

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.