A wacky inventor and his wife invite two other couples for a weekend party at a romantic summer house in the 1900s countryside.
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Cast
| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Woody Allen | ... | Andrew | |
| Mia Farrow | ... | Ariel | |
| José Ferrer | ... | Leopold (as Jose Ferrer) | |
| Julie Hagerty | ... | Dulcy | |
| Tony Roberts | ... | Maxwell | |
| Mary Steenburgen | ... | Adrian | |
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Adam Redfield | ... | Student Foxx |
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Moishe Rosenfeld | ... | Mr. Hayes |
| Timothy Jenkins | ... | Mr. Thomson | |
| Michael Higgins | ... | Reynolds | |
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Sol Frieder | ... | Carstairs |
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Boris Zoubok | ... | Purvis |
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Thomas Barbour | ... | Blint |
| Kate McGregor-Stewart | ... | Mrs. Baker | |
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Centred around a weekend party at the home of inventor Andrew Hobbs and his wife Adrian, attended by randy doctor Maxwell Jordan, his nurse Dulcy, renowned philosopher Dr.Leopold Sturgis and his fiancée, this is a light comedy concerning their various emotional, intellectual and sexual entanglements, loosely based on Ingmar Bergman's 'Smiles of a Summer Night' . Written by Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>
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16 July 1982 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy See more »Filming Locations:
Columbia University - Broadway & 116th Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA See more »Edit
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Opening Weekend USA:
$2,514,478, 18 July 1982Gross USA:
$9,077,269Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$9,077,269Company Credits
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Leopold: Ghosts or little spirits or pixies, I don't believe in them. Do you Mr. Foxx?
Student Foxx: No, sir.
Leopold: You sounded, with all your metaphysical gibberish.
Student Foxx: Well, I didn't mean ghosts or spirits, professor.
Leopold: Nothing is real, but experience. That which can be touched, tasted felt, or in some scientific fashion proved. We must never substitute qualitative events that are marked by similar properties and reoccurrences for fixed substances.
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(1837)
Written by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (as Mendelssohn)
Performed by Eugene Ormandy and The Philadelphia Orchestra
Courtesy of CBS Records
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Mary Steenburgen, who plays Adrian, was to appear about in Woody Allen's later film Another Woman (1988). However, all of Steenburgen's scenes playing Marion's sister-in-law character in that movie were cut out from the final film. As such, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982) remains Steenburgen's only film with Allen. See more »Goofs
About thirteen minutes into the movie, a crew member is visible crouched by a tree, as a deer runs through the woods. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Leopold: Ghosts or little spirits or pixies, I don't believe in them. Do you Mr. Foxx?
Student Foxx: No, sir.
Leopold: You sounded, with all your metaphysical gibberish.
Student Foxx: Well, I didn't mean ghosts or spirits, professor.
Leopold: Nothing is real, but experience. That which can be touched, tasted felt, or in some scientific fashion proved. We must never substitute qualitative events that are marked by similar properties and reoccurrences for fixed substances.
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Soundtracks
Piano Concerto No. 2 in D Minor, Opus 40(1837)
Written by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (as Mendelssohn)
Performed by Eugene Ormandy and The Philadelphia Orchestra
Courtesy of CBS Records
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Woody Allen's "Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy" that was made in 1982 between "Stardust Memory" (1980) and "Zelig"(1983) is considered by many as a lesser Allen's work or even failure. It was even nominated for a Razzie (Mia Farrow) for crying out loud. Well, failure or not, I'd take this silly, funny, humorous, beautifully photographed with Felix Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 3, Violin Concerto in E Minor, Piano Concerto No. 2 and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" suite for the soundtrack little treasure over the majority of Hollywood comedies any day or night including midsummer night. Spoofing Shakespeare's classic comedy and highly successful Ingmar Bergman's "Smiles of a Summer Night", Woody made a light comedy about six very different people - three couples in a turn-of-the-century who gathered together in a country during the weekend party in search for love, understanding and meaning of life and death which has his own unique style. Allen does not take things too seriously and laughs at and with his characters providing the best comical scenes in the movie as an inventor. One scene is his first appearance with the wings on his back when he tries to fly and another when he pedals his flying bicycle in a very ET - manner. Funny and memorable.
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