Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (film)
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Theatrical poster to Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)
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| Directed by | Woody Allen |
| Produced by | Charles Joffe |
| Screenplay by | Woody Allen |
| Based on |
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) by David Reuben |
| Starring | Woody Allen Louise Lasser John Carradine Tony Randall Burt Reynolds Gene Wilder Jack Barry Erin Fleming Lynn Redgrave Regis Philbin Heather MacRae |
| Music by | Mundell Lowe |
| Cinematography | David M. Walsh |
| Edited by | Eric Albertson |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
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88 minutes |
| Language | English Italian |
| Budget | $2 million |
| Box office | $18,016,290 |
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) is a 1972 comedy film directed by Woody Allen. It consists of a series of short sequences loosely inspired by Dr. David Reuben's book of the same name.
The film was an early smash for Allen, grossing over $18 million in North America alone against a $2 million budget, making it the 13th 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 is divided into seven vignettes, as follows:
The film holds an 89% "Fresh" rating of on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 19 reviews.
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".
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?"
In 2004, Christopher Null, founder of filmcritic.com, called it a "minor classic and Woody Allen's most absurd film ever".
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