| Casual Sex? | |
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| Directed by | Geneviève Robert |
| Written by | Wendy Goldman Judy Toll |
| Produced by | Ilona Herzberg |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Rolf Kestermann |
| Edited by | Donn Cambern Sheldon Kahn |
| Music by | Van Dyke Parks |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $12.2 million[1] |
Casual Sex? is a 1988 American comedy film about two female friends in their 20s who go to a vacation resort in search of ideal men. It stars Lea Thompson, Victoria Jackson, Andrew Dice Clay, Jerry Levine, and Mary Gross. The film originated as a Groundlings musical-comedy sketch in 1985 by Wendy Goldman and Judy Toll.[2] Ivan Reitman and his wife Geneviève Robert approached Goldman and Toll with the aim of adapting the sketch into a film. The film is Robert's sole directing effort. Reitman served as the film's executive producer.[3]
The plot element of AIDS was incorporated in the script to address changing mores about sex in the late 1980s.[4] A question mark was added to the film's title to acknowledge cultural anxieties surrounding casual sex during the AIDS epidemic.[5]
- ^ "Casual Sex? (1988)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved August 24, 2024.
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LATimeswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Beale, Lewis (April 28, 1988). "A Christian Fundamentalist Disrobes For 'Casual Sex?'". Los Angeles Daily News. Archived from the original on April 2, 2014 – via Chicago Tribune.
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Rosenbaumwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Casual Sex? (1988)". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved August 24, 2024.