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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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Tasteless but funny
The title comes from a silly sex book that came out in the early 1970s and was a big hit. Read today the book is hilariously naive and full of misinformation. Anyway, Woody Allen took some chapters from the book and came up with seven skits. The quality ranges from horrible to hilarious.
In the first Allen plays a court jester who uses an aphrodisiac to seduce a queen (Lynn Redgrave). Unfortunately she has a chastity belt on! Very funny and where else can you see Redgrave wearing a chastity belt? The second has Gene Wilder as a doctor falling in love with a sheep! Don't worry--it's not explicit. It's OK. The third is a funny parody of foreign films (complete with subtitles) where Allen has trouble getting his wife (Louise Lasser) to orgasm. Good idea but it has no ending. The fourth is easily the weakest--it has Lou Jacobi who loves to wear womens clothes. The fifth is a parody of the old TV game show "What's My Line". It's shot in b&w and is called "What's My Perversion". It has a very young Regis Philbin in the cast! The sixth has John Carradine as a mad scientist (what else?) who accidentally invents a giant breast that roams the countryside drowning people with milk! The last is the best--it shows what happens in a man's body during sex. It has Tony Randall and Burt Reynolds in the mind and Allen playing a nervous sperm!
Tasteless to be sure but even the bad skits have some great lines. The content isn't THAT bad--except for the breast there is no nudity but there is a lot of frank sexual talk. If you can deal with sex and laugh at it you might like this movie. Otherwise stay away. I give it a 7.
In the first Allen plays a court jester who uses an aphrodisiac to seduce a queen (Lynn Redgrave). Unfortunately she has a chastity belt on! Very funny and where else can you see Redgrave wearing a chastity belt? The second has Gene Wilder as a doctor falling in love with a sheep! Don't worry--it's not explicit. It's OK. The third is a funny parody of foreign films (complete with subtitles) where Allen has trouble getting his wife (Louise Lasser) to orgasm. Good idea but it has no ending. The fourth is easily the weakest--it has Lou Jacobi who loves to wear womens clothes. The fifth is a parody of the old TV game show "What's My Line". It's shot in b&w and is called "What's My Perversion". It has a very young Regis Philbin in the cast! The sixth has John Carradine as a mad scientist (what else?) who accidentally invents a giant breast that roams the countryside drowning people with milk! The last is the best--it shows what happens in a man's body during sex. It has Tony Randall and Burt Reynolds in the mind and Allen playing a nervous sperm!
Tasteless to be sure but even the bad skits have some great lines. The content isn't THAT bad--except for the breast there is no nudity but there is a lot of frank sexual talk. If you can deal with sex and laugh at it you might like this movie. Otherwise stay away. I give it a 7.
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- $2,000,000 (estimated)
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- $18,090,065
- Runtime1 hour 28 minutes
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