History Film / AMidsummerNightsSexComedy

* MadScientist: Well, more "very neurotic" than "mad", but Andrew is an inventor, and he's played by Woody Allen, and he's exactly what one would expect from Woody Allen as an inventor. [[SelfDeprecation Andrew even refers to himself as a "crackpot inventor".]] The apple peeler he shows off, however, [[AluminumChristmasTrees was a real Victorian device]].

* WholePlotReference: The film's plot is a loose retelling of Creator/IngmarBergman's ''Film/SmilesOfASummerNight''. As for Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'', it features partner-swapping, mysticism, and the lead love interest's name is Ariel. Allen also stated that it was also influenced by ''Film/ClairesKnee''.

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex:
** When Andrew and Adrian finally have sex again, Andrew gushes it was "a religious experience!"
** Dulcy says that she had sex with Leopold "like two savages", and remarks "he was magnificent!"

* WholePlotReference: The film's plot is a loose retelling of Creator/IngmarBergman's ''Film/SmilesOfASummerNight''. As for Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'', it features partner-swapping, mysticism, and the lead love interest's name is Ariel.

The film was shot while Allen was waiting for ''Film/{{Zelig}}'' to finish post-production.

** When Andrew and Ariel finally have sex, Andrew gushes it was "a religious experience!"

In the year 1900, Professor Leopold ([[Creator/JoseFerrer José Ferrer]]), a distinguished philosopher, and his fiancée Ariel (Creator/MiaFarrow), visit Leopold's cousin Adrian (Creator/MarySteenburgen), and her crackpot inventor husband Andrew (Allen) on the countryside. They are joined by doctor Maxwell (Tony Roberts) and his girlfriend and nurse, Dulcy (Julie Hagerty). Over the course of the weekend, a series of wacky romantic encounters results from the reunion of the three couples.

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* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:The entire reason [[TheLoinsSleepTonight Andrew and Adrian can't enjoy sex]] is that Adrian slept with Maxwell a year and a half before and her guilt sabotaged the sex.]]

* PublicDomainSoundtrack: The entire film uses music by Music/FelixMendelssohn, including his famed wedding march.

In the year 1900, Professor Leopold (José Ferrer), a distinguished philosopher, and his fiancée Ariel (Creator/MiaFarrow), visit Leopold's cousin Adrian (Creator/MarySteenburgen), and her crackpot inventor husband Andrew (Allen) on the countryside. They are joined by doctor Maxwell (Tony Roberts) and his girlfriend and nurse, Dulcy (Julie Hagerty). Over the course of the weekend, a series of wacky romantic encounters results from the reunion of the three couples.

* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Loepold's dream comes true after a fashion.

'''Dulcy:''' It is!\\

-->'''Dulcy:''' ''(ImmodestOrgasm)'' Bite me harder! Harder\\

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* MadScientist: Well, more "very neurotic" than "mad", but Andrew is an inventor, and he's played by Woody Allen, and he's exactly what one would expect from Woody Allen as an inventor. The apple peeler he shows off, however, [[AluminumChristmasTrees was a real Victorian device]].

In the early 1900s, Professor Leopold (José Ferrer), a distinguished philosopher, and his fiancée Ariel (Creator/MiaFarrow), visit Leopold's cousin Adrian (Creator/MarySteenburgen), and her crackpot inventor husband Andrew (Allen) on the countryside. They are joined by doctor Maxwell (Tony Roberts) and his girlfriend and nurse, Dulcy (Julie Hagerty). Over the course of the weekend, a series of wacky romantic encounters results from the reunion of the three couples.

* MadScientist: Well, more "very neurotic" than "mad", but Andrew is an inventor, and he's played by Woody Allen, and he's exactly what one would expect from Woody Allen as an inventor.

-->'''Leopold:''' Just now, before I awoke. I was dreaming this. Precisely this. That's incredible. We were alone and you were lying across the sofa, and you were reading. I asked you what, and you said ''ComicStrip/TheKatzenjammerKids''. And I thought it was funny. And then your robe fell open slightly. Only slightly, the way it is now, and I was taken with|a great erotic fervor. And all the terrible thoughts of my whole life, that I'd been afraid to unleash, poured forth.\\

-->'''Leopold:''' [[spoiler: Blood! I drew blood! And I ''relished'' it!]]