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6 August 1972 (USA)
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If you want to know how this man made a movie out of this book... "Everything you always wanted to know about sex* - *But Were Afraid to Ask" you'll have to see the movie! more
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Seven segments related to one another only in that they all purport to be based on sections of the book by David Reuben...
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Aphrodisiac
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Queen
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Jester
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Court Jester
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Purity
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This is a very funny parody of pop sex-psychology literature
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Woody Allen | ... | The Fool / Fabrizio / Victor Shakapopulis / Sperm #1 | |
| John Carradine | ... | Dr. Bernardo | |
| Lou Jacobi | ... | Sam Musgrave | |
| Louise Lasser | ... | Gina | |
| Anthony Quayle | ... | The King | |
| Tony Randall | ... | The Operator | |
| Lynn Redgrave | ... | The Queen | |
| Burt Reynolds | ... | Switchboard | |
| Gene Wilder | ... | Dr. Doug Ross | |
| Jack Barry | ... | Himself | |
| Erin Fleming | ... | The Girl | |
| Elaine Giftos | ... | Anne Ross | |
| Toni Holt | ... | Herself | |
| Robert Q. Lewis | ... | Himself | |
| Heather MacRae | ... | Helen Lacey |
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (USA) (short title)
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87 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Canada:R (Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) |
Italy:VM14 (re-rating) |
Italy:VM18 (original rating) |
Singapore:M18 |
Brazil:14 |
Spain:18 |
Argentina:18 |
Australia:M |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Finland:K-16 |
France:-16 |
Iceland:Unrated |
Norway:16 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:18 |
USA:R (certificate #23359) |
West Germany:12
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The seven segments are: - (1) Do Aphrodisiacs Work? in which a court jester is foiled by the Queen's chastity belt - (2) What is Sodomy? in which a doctor falls in love with one of his patients, who just happens to be a sheep - (3) Do Some Women Have Trouble Reaching Orgasm? Allen's homage to Italian film-making in general and Michelangelo Antonioni in particular - (4) Are Transvestites Homosexuals? in which a middle-aged man experiments with women's clothes - (5) What Are Sex Perverts? a send-up of game shows - (6) Are the Findings of Doctors and Clinics Who Do Sexual Research Accurate? in which the countryside is terrorized by a giant runaway breast and - (7) What Happens During Ejaculation? which is set in the brain (and other parts of the body) as a man gets involved in a sexual clinch.
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Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The second "baseball player" in the final chapter is football great Joe Namath.
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[Dr. Ross is in divorce court]
Divorce Court Judge: The defendant did commit an adulterous act with a sheep - most distasteful in view of the fact that the sheep was under 18 years old.
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Divorce Court Judge: The defendant did commit an adulterous act with a sheep - most distasteful in view of the fact that the sheep was under 18 years old.
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Referenced in Everything You Need to Know About Buying and Selling a Used Car, But Were Afraid to Ask (1990) (V)
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LET'S MISBEHAVE
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The film is entirely about sexual perversions, even though it is not technically erotic Allen has taken some of the most popular clinical treatments of sexual fetishes and has placed them into very unusual situations
Gene Wilder, for example, falls in love with a sheep; Woody Allen plays a medieval court jester who gets his lance stuck in his lady's chastity belt while the king is off fighting in the Crusades; a giant breast is released upon the countryside; an Italian couple can only find happiness in public sex; and we are taken into the inner labors of a male human body as it tries to seduce a woman in a car
Each individual scene is quite well done The tales are rapid filled with irony about the overly exaggerated importance of sex in our culture