The film wasn't without its share of laughs. It made me feel old and I thought, if I feel old, think of how old these people are that I'm watching. It was a movie out of sync with its time. Today's gifted young filmmakers are looking elsewhere for their kicks. After hearing the pitch, one commercially minded producer I know passed.
Nobody wants to see that kind of wife-swapping sex anymore.
The more commonplace sex has become in our culture, the less of a place it has in our movies. It's no coincidence that sex farces were most prevalent from the Depression to the pre-sexual revolution 1960s. Sexual humor needs sexual repression to work its magic. But we have a different culture today, where grown-ups can't act foolish or romantic like that. Without taboos or restrictions, there's none of the tension that gives sexual farces their subversive comic punch.