The Joy Of Sex
Synopsis
Dr. Alex Comfort (Colin Firth) is a four-fingered British professor of mollusks - eccentric, brilliant, passionate about nuclear disarmament and gastropod reproduction in equal measure. There is one area however where Alex is no expert. The bedroom. He and his wife Ruth are, to put it
diplomatically, models of restraint.
That is until the bohemian and passionate Jane (Julianne Moore), who has loved him since Cambridge University, re-enters their lives.
She ignites a new calling within him. Sex.
Dr Comfort applies his formidable academic rigour to this new field of study. An exploration that Ruth, it is fair to say, is not best placed to assist with. And so, the three of them arrive at an unconventional ‘solution’, in theory modern and progressive in practice a recipe for disaster…
What emerges is a gourmet guide to lovemaking - an illustrated sex manual that scandalises publishers globally, tops the New York Times bestseller list and sells over 12 million copies across 33 countries in 24 languages - changing the way the world talks about intimacy forever.
Bringing comfort to millions. The Joy of Sex.
Director
Sharon Maguire
Cast
Colin Firth, Julianne Moore & Laura Linney