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Seven stories are trying to answer the question: what is sex? Or maybe they are not trying.Seven stories are trying to answer the question: what is sex? Or maybe they are not trying.Seven stories are trying to answer the question: what is sex? Or maybe they are not trying.
Toni Holt Kramer
- Toni Holt
- (as Toni Holt)
Heather MacRae
- Helen Lacey
- (as Heather Macrae)
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- TriviaDr. David Reuben, the author of the source book "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)," did not like this movie, and in an interview with the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, said: "I didn't enjoy the movie, because it impressed me as a sexual tragedy. Every episode in the picture was a chronicle of sexual failure, which was the converse of everything in the book."
- GoofsAt the end of the fourth segment the transvestite man's wife exclaims: "The look on their faces when the police removed your hat!" and the man laughs in response. But it was actually the man himself who had removed his hat on being recognized by his wife.
- Crazy creditsOpening and closing credits shown over footage of rabbits.
- Alternate versionsAfter being banned in Ireland on March 20 1973, a cut version was passed in 1979 and theatrically released in 1980. This edited:
- the scene in which a shepherd goes to see a doctor and tells him how he has fallen in love with a sheep. The line, "the greatest lay I ever had" was removed.
- The bread intercourse scene was removed entirely.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Hollywood vs. Religion (1994)
- SoundtracksLet's Misbehave
(1927)
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
RCA Records
Played and Sung offscreen during the opening and closing credits by Irving Aaronson and His Commanders (uncredited)
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In a series of sketches Woody Allen looks at aphrodisiacs, bestiality, cross dressing, perversions, sexual experiments and the functioning of the body during intercourse. All this answers key questions about sex that perhaps we were all to afraid to ask.
Woody Allen apparently just noted down all his comedy thought about sex and decided to make them into a movie. The end result is a strange beast like sex it has bits that are fantastic and bits that aren't quite as fun but you gotta do them to get to the good stuff! The questions that are asked in subtitle are never actually answered and several times are barely relateable to the actual sketches themselves so don't expect to learn very much but get ready for some laughs but not as many as you'd hope.
Allen's comedies are either surreal quick fire comedies or witty plot based things. This is one of the former, or at least wants to be. Some of the sketches are very imaginative and very funny what's my perversion, the experiment and the innerspace look at sex are all funny. However some others are mildly amusing or totally pointless (the cross dressing one doesn't really work).
That said it is still quite funny despite the lapses. The cast are good but I wanted to see Woody more as the weakest sketches were without him and needed his influence. Faces like Lynn Redgrave, Carradine, Tony Randall, Burt Reynolds, Barry etc are all good but only really serve to distract.
Overall fans will enjoy this example of his `earlier funnier work' but for others they may find that too many of the jokes don't hit as hard as you'd want and some just plain misfire. The hits only just outweigh the misses but it's still work a watch.
Woody Allen apparently just noted down all his comedy thought about sex and decided to make them into a movie. The end result is a strange beast like sex it has bits that are fantastic and bits that aren't quite as fun but you gotta do them to get to the good stuff! The questions that are asked in subtitle are never actually answered and several times are barely relateable to the actual sketches themselves so don't expect to learn very much but get ready for some laughs but not as many as you'd hope.
Allen's comedies are either surreal quick fire comedies or witty plot based things. This is one of the former, or at least wants to be. Some of the sketches are very imaginative and very funny what's my perversion, the experiment and the innerspace look at sex are all funny. However some others are mildly amusing or totally pointless (the cross dressing one doesn't really work).
That said it is still quite funny despite the lapses. The cast are good but I wanted to see Woody more as the weakest sketches were without him and needed his influence. Faces like Lynn Redgrave, Carradine, Tony Randall, Burt Reynolds, Barry etc are all good but only really serve to distract.
Overall fans will enjoy this example of his `earlier funnier work' but for others they may find that too many of the jokes don't hit as hard as you'd want and some just plain misfire. The hits only just outweigh the misses but it's still work a watch.
- bob the moo
- Sep 14, 2002
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- Are the Findings of Doctors and Clinics Who Do Sexual Research and Experiments Accurate?
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- $2,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $18,016,290
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- $18,090,065
- Runtime1 hour 28 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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