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Bookmark this pageEverything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
Director: Woody Allen
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From Time Out Film Guide
Seven sketches parodying a sex manual, in which Allen - before trying to change his name to Fellini-Bergman - strung together 'every funny idea I've ever had about sex, including several that led to my own divorce'. Some 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?', which has the miniaturised scientists of Fantastic Voyage inside a life-sized male robot, busily checking data and providing the necessary bodily reactions by hand-turned winch as the robot wines, dines and seduces a real-life woman. Allen achieves his finest hour here, dressed as one of the sperm, poised anxiously with parachute by the escape hatch and crying 'Gung ho!' as he jumps, 'We're gonna make babies!'Author: TM
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- willy said...
- Posted on Nov 21 2009 01:56 i disagree. the best one liner of the movie is when allen gets ready to ´jump´ looks around and says ¨at least he´s jewish. thats funny.
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Cast & crew
Director: Woody Allen
Producer: Charles H Joffe
Cast: Woody Allen, Lynn Redgrave, John Carradine, Burt Reynolds, Anthony Quayle, Gene Wilder, Lou Jacobi, Tony Randall, Louise Lasser full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 87 mins
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