Score (1972)

In what might alternately have been called Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’s Pussy?, a sophisticated couple with an open but contentious marriage prey on the insecurities and taboo desires of an earnest, naïve, and troubled pair of young lovers. Unlike the Edward Albee psychodrama as prepared for the screen by Mike Nichols in 1966, every performer in Score: Unrated (1972) deserves to be seen getting laid, and is seen getting laid. The characters also all live happily ever after. And why not? Stifling inhibitions and outmoded gender roles have been overcome. The life-affirming sexual energy has been unleashed. Homophobes be alert! Avert your gazes, or else pretend that one of the two dudes playing couch ball is actually a chick, which is exactly what one of those dudes does.