Portnoy's Complaint (1972)(dvd)

Synopsis: For his directing debut, screenwriter Ernest Lehman — Sabrina Fair, Sweet Smell of Success, North by Northwest and many blockbusting musicals, including The Sound of Music, bear his imprimatur — chose Philip Roth's scandalous novel about the difficulties of being Jewish and the joys of masturbation. Portnoy (a smirking Richard Benjamin) has been a lonely, repressed child who has grown up playing obsessively with himself — as Woody Allen called it, “It's sex with someone you love.”

Various prostitutes and fashion models try and help Portnoy in this satire that should really have been a hardcore porn movie but emerges as a limp, unfunny imitation of The Graduate.

Cast: Richard Benjamin, Karen Black
Runtime: 96 min