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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) | |
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Directed by | Woody Allen |
Screenplay by | Woody Allen |
Based on |
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) by David Reuben |
Produced by | Charles H. Joffe |
Starring | |
Cinematography | David M. Walsh |
Edited by | Eric Albertson |
Music by | Mundell Lowe |
Production companies |
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Distributed by | United Artists |
Release date |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages |
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Budget | $2 million |
Box office | $18 million [1] |
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) is a 1972 American sex comedy anthology film directed by Woody Allen. It consists of a series of short sequences loosely inspired by David Reuben's 1969 book of the same name.
The film was an early success for Woody Allen, grossing over $18 million in North America alone against a $2 million budget, making it the 10th highest-grossing film of 1972.
The credits at the start and close of the film are played over a backdrop of a large mass of white rabbits, to the tune of " Let's Misbehave" by Cole Porter.
The film consists of seven vignettes, as follows:
The film holds an 89% "Fresh" rating of on the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 19 reviews. [3]
An August 1972 review by Time said that many of the film's ideas "sound good on paper" but that the "skits wind down rather than take off from the ideas"; the film includes "some broad, funny send-ups of other movies ( Fantastic Voyage, La notte), and its fair share of memorably wacky lines" but that "overall it is just Woody marking time and being merely a little funnier". [4]
The Time Out Film Guide noted that some of the film's sketches are "dross, but the parodies of Antonioni (all angst and alienation of a wife who can achieve orgasm only in public places) and of TV panel games ('What's My Perversion?') are brilliantly accurate and very funny. Best of all is the sci-fi parody entitled What Happens During Ejaculation?" [5]
In 2004, Christopher Null, founder of filmcritic.com, called it a "minor classic and Woody Allen's most absurd film ever". [6]
The film was banned in Ireland on March 20, 1973. [7] A cut version was passed in 1979 and released theatrically in 1980, removing both a bestiality reference ("the greatest lay I ever had", referring to a sheep) and a man having sex with a loaf of rye bread. The ban on the uncut version was eventually lifted. [8] [9]
This article needs additional citations for
verification. (February 2015) |
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) | |
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Directed by | Woody Allen |
Screenplay by | Woody Allen |
Based on |
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) by David Reuben |
Produced by | Charles H. Joffe |
Starring | |
Cinematography | David M. Walsh |
Edited by | Eric Albertson |
Music by | Mundell Lowe |
Production companies |
|
Distributed by | United Artists |
Release date |
|
Running time | 88 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages |
|
Budget | $2 million |
Box office | $18 million [1] |
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) is a 1972 American sex comedy anthology film directed by Woody Allen. It consists of a series of short sequences loosely inspired by David Reuben's 1969 book of the same name.
The film was an early success for Woody Allen, grossing over $18 million in North America alone against a $2 million budget, making it the 10th highest-grossing film of 1972.
The credits at the start and close of the film are played over a backdrop of a large mass of white rabbits, to the tune of " Let's Misbehave" by Cole Porter.
The film consists of seven vignettes, as follows:
The film holds an 89% "Fresh" rating of on the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 19 reviews. [3]
An August 1972 review by Time said that many of the film's ideas "sound good on paper" but that the "skits wind down rather than take off from the ideas"; the film includes "some broad, funny send-ups of other movies ( Fantastic Voyage, La notte), and its fair share of memorably wacky lines" but that "overall it is just Woody marking time and being merely a little funnier". [4]
The Time Out Film Guide noted that some of the film's sketches are "dross, but the parodies of Antonioni (all angst and alienation of a wife who can achieve orgasm only in public places) and of TV panel games ('What's My Perversion?') are brilliantly accurate and very funny. Best of all is the sci-fi parody entitled What Happens During Ejaculation?" [5]
In 2004, Christopher Null, founder of filmcritic.com, called it a "minor classic and Woody Allen's most absurd film ever". [6]
The film was banned in Ireland on March 20, 1973. [7] A cut version was passed in 1979 and released theatrically in 1980, removing both a bestiality reference ("the greatest lay I ever had", referring to a sheep) and a man having sex with a loaf of rye bread. The ban on the uncut version was eventually lifted. [8] [9]