Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask
1972 · Movie · R · 88 min · ★ 6.5 · 77% critics
This anthology comedy strings together seven short stories, each built around a different question about sex. Across wildly different settings—from medieval courts to labs and TV game shows—characters chase answers through absurd experiments, misunderstandings, and over-the-top situations, with the goal more to provoke laughs than provide real guidance.
Also known as Everything You Always Wanted to Know... · Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex · “Every Thing You Always Wanted to Know About Sex”* *But Were Afraid to Ask · Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex ＊But Were Afraid to Ask
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Details
- Original title
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
- Years
- 1972
- Release date
- 1972-08-06
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Critic score
- 77/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.5/10 (998 votes)
About
You may enjoy this if you like anything-goes, sketch-style sex comedy with a hit-or-miss rhythm and some intentionally absurd segments; Not for you if dated, crude jokes or uneven anthology pacing turns you off, even if you liked Bananas.
Pros: inventive vignette format; occasional big laughs; memorable absurd set pieces | Cons: very uneven sketches; jokes feel dated; crude or tasteless bits
Themes
- sperm
- sheep
- transsexuality
- orgasm
- perversity
- castle
- sodomy
- anthology
- sexology
- male homosexuality
- king
- bestiality
- +4 more
Cast & crew
Woody Allen
as Victor / Fabrizio / The Fool / Sperm
John Carradine
as Dr. Bernardo
Lou Jacobi
as Sam Musgrave
Louise Lasser
as Gina
Anthony Quayle
as The King
Tony Randall
as The Operator
Lynn Redgrave
as Queen
Burt Reynolds
as Switchboard
Gene Wilder
as Dr. Doug Ross
Jack Barry
as Himself
Directed by Woody Allen