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Synopsis: The concurrent sexual lives of best friends Jonathan and Sandy are presented, those lives which are affected by the sexual mores of the time and their own temperament, especially in relation to the respective women who end up in their lives. Their story begins in the late 1940s when they are roommates attending Amherst College together. Both virgins, they discuss the type of woman they would each like to end up with. Sandy, the more sensitive of the two, meets Susan at a mixer, she who he believes is going to be the one to who he will lose his virginity. Sandy goes through the process methodically, taking into account what he thinks Susan wants, but without much true passion or romance. Jonathan, the more sexually aggressive of the two, ends up losing his virginity first to "Myrtle", who ends up being a steady but hidden girlfriend. Based on what each knows of the other's relationship, both Jonathan and Sandy strive for a little more of what the other has. These relationships also set
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Mike Nichols
Production: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
R
Year:
1971
98 min
964 Views


a little.

I don't think

you would nearly as

much as some people.

Now, for instance,

someday I want to

write novels.

Not now, but you know,

later on,

when I have

something to say.

Now, that doesn't

threaten you, does it?

- No...

- ( bell tolling )

Maybe a little.

Don't press so hard.

See, it's better

when it's gentle.

See?

What are you

grinning at?

Did you

feel her up yet?

Come on,

I like this girl.

I don't want

to ruin things.

Was I right

about kissing her?

Listen, we had

a big fight over it.

And you won?

Well, I don't know

if I won or not.

Why are you

letting yourself

be pushed around?

You're the one who's

pushing me around!

I guess I won.

Sure, I won.

She kissed me

five times.

Now, that's when

you should've

put your hand

on her tit.

Come on, when this girl's

nice enough to kiss me,

I should do that to her?

You act as if she's

doing you a favor.

Well, it is sort of

a favor, isn't it?

I mean, when a girl

lets you kiss her

and, you know,

go on from there.

Feel her up

and, you know,

the rest of it.

Go all the way

and the rest of it.

I mean,

isn't it a favor?

What's in it for her?

I mean, if she's not

getting paid or anything.

F*** you.

( laughing )

Okay, okay,

I'll feel her up.

Sandy, please take

your hand off my breast.

- Why?

- 'Cause I want you to.

How can it be any

fun for you if you

know I don't want it?

I didn't say

it was fun.

Then why is your

hand where it is?

Because,

the way we're going,

by this time,

I should be

feeling you up.

I don't feel that way

about you, Sandy.

I feel that way

about you.

Well, you want me

to feel something

for you too,

don't you?

I thought

you liked me.

I do like you,

but I like you

for other reasons.

So...

So... if we went

any further,

there wouldn't be

those reasons anymore.

Well, we might have

something else, though.

What?

Something else.

You're the first girl

I've ever done that

to, Susan.

( sighs )

I didn't know that.

It doesn't show?

No.

( sighs )

Well, it's something we both

have to go through, I guess.

Susan, are you

a virgin?

What do I do

with my other hand?

What are you gonna

do with your hands?

Jonathan:

And then what?

Sandy:

She told me to take

my hand off her breast.

- What did you do?

- I said I didn't want to.

Then what?

She said how could

it be fun for me if

she didn't like it?

Oh, Jesus.

- I said I thought

she liked me.

- Yeah?

She said, "I like you

for other reasons."

Other reasons?

So, I told her how

I really needed this.

What did you

tell her?

You know, that it was

my first time.

Your first time what?

What did you say exactly?

I don't remember

exactly.

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Jules Feiffer

Jules Ralph Feiffer (born January 26, 1929) is an American syndicated cartoonist and author, who was considered the most widely read satirist in the country. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 as America's leading editorial cartoonist, and in 2004 he was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame. He wrote the animated short Munro, which won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1961. The Library of Congress has recognized his "remarkable legacy", from 1946 to the present, as a cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter, adult and children's book author, illustrator, and art instructor.When Feiffer was 17 (in the mid-1940s) he became assistant to cartoonist Will Eisner. There he helped Eisner write and illustrate his comic strips, including The Spirit. He then became a staff cartoonist at The Village Voice beginning in 1956, where he produced the weekly comic strip titled Feiffer until 1997. His cartoons became nationally syndicated in 1959 and then appeared regularly in publications including the Los Angeles Times, the London Observer, The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, and The Nation. In 1997 he created the first op-ed page comic strip for the New York Times, which ran monthly until 2000. He has written more than 35 books, plays and screenplays. His first of many collections of satirical cartoons, Sick, Sick, Sick, was published in 1958, and his first novel, Harry, the Rat With Women, in 1963. He wrote The Great Comic Book Heroes in 1965: the first history of the comic-book superheroes of the late 1930s and early 1940s and a tribute to their creators. In 1979 Feiffer created his first graphic novel, Tantrum. By 1993 he began writing and illustrating books aimed at young readers, with several of them winning awards. Feiffer began writing for the theater and film in 1961, with plays including Little Murders (1967), Feiffer's People (1969), and Knock Knock (1976). He wrote the screenplay for Carnal Knowledge (1971), directed by Mike Nichols, and Popeye (1980), directed by Robert Altman. Besides writing, he is currently an instructor with the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton. more…

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