Joy of Sex (1984) on Netflix
Leslie Hindenberg believes she has only weeks to live and wants to lose her virginity. Her father coaches at her school, so boys keep away, and Alan Holt shares the goal.
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Plot summary
Leslie Hindenberg has just begun her senior year of high school. She goes to a doctor about a mole and comes away convinced that she has only six weeks left, so she decides to lose her virginity before then. Her father is the physical education coach at her school, and the boys there keep away from the coach's daughter because they are afraid of him. Alan Holt, a teenager at the same school, is frustrated in his own way: his friends boast about their own encounters, he thinks about sex constantly, and he keeps looking for a chance to lose his virginity.
Cast
- Charles Van Emanas Max Holt
- Heidi Holickeras Candy
- David H. MacDonaldas Ernie Carpenter
- Paul Tulleyas Ted
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Joy of Sex (1984)
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- In 1978 Paramount hired Charles Grodin to write Joy of Sex and told him the movie 'could be about anything'; he made that the premise, a writer struggling to adapt a sex manual after a studio buys the rights, and MGM greenlit it in 1985 as Movers & Shakers.
- Martha Coolidge was fired from Joy of Sex for cutting many scenes of gratuitous nudity, but she declined the chance to have her directing credit on the film appear under the pseudonym Alan Smithee.
- National Lampoon producer Matty Simmons claims he paid $250,000 to have the National Lampoon name removed from Joy of Sex.
- John Belushi was supposed to appear in Joy of Sex, but he died before filming began, according to the book Wired.
- Director Martha Coolidge said the music for Joy of Sex was given only $20,000, while the Valley Girl soundtrack, not counting its score, cost $150,000.
- Paramount insisted on topless girls running down the hall in Joy of Sex; after preview audiences, especially young women, hated the nudity, the studio asked director Martha Coolidge to cut as much of it as she could.
- In her book My Mother Was Nuts, Penny Marshall says she was slated to direct Joy of Sex, which would have been her first feature film, from a script by John Hughes that would have been his first adapted for the screen.
- Writer Kathleen Rowell, who had adapted The Outsiders, enlisted her sister Joyce Salter and Joyce's husband John Salter to help write Joy of Sex; because the budget allowed only two credited writers, the couple took the pseudonym 'J.J. Salter'.
