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A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)

★ 6.5 · 468 ratings on TMDB

Six characters in search of love

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy poster★ 6.5

A nutty inventor, his frustrated wife, a philosopher cousin, his much younger fiancée, a randy doctor, and a free-thinking nurse spend a summer weekend in and around a stunning - and possibly magical - country house.

DirectorWoody Allen
CastAdam Redfield, José Ferrer, Julie Hagerty, Mary Steenburgen, Mia Farrow, Michael Higgins
GenresComedy, Romance
The emergence reading

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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