Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (film) Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (film) 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
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (film) 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 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