I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight

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I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight
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Directed by Joseph McGrath
Written by David McGillivray
Laurence Barnett
Produced byLaurence Barnett
Malcolm Fancey
John Lindsay
StarringBarry Andrews
James Booth
Sally Faulkner
Cinematography Kenneth Higgins
Edited by Jim Atkinson
John W. Carr
Music by Cy Payne
Production
company
Antler Film Productions
Distributed byNew Realm Pictures
Release date
  • 26 February 1976 (1976-02-26)
Running time
84 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
Language English

I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight is a 1976 British sexploitation comedy film directed by Joseph McGrath and starring Barry Andrews, James Booth and Sally Faulkner. [1] It was written by David McGillivray and Laurence Barnett.

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Plot

Jon Pigeon and Keith Furey, odd job man at a sex research institute, invent an electronic aphrodisiac. Their invention is stolen, and they attempt to retrieve it.

Cast

Production

The film was shot at Twickenham Studios.

Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Yet another reworking of the male chauvinist's dream theme – the surefire aphrodisiac – lifted to a degree by an unusual hint of sophistication in the script, a decent caricature of a Teddy-rocker by Billy Hamon, and one modestly funny running gag in which a M*A*S*H-like tannoy periodically bleats out inane announcements in the background ('Coitus has started in Room 26 – please do not interrupt us!'). For the rest, however, the British sex-comedy formula is rigidly and tiresomely adhered to, complete with continuous sexual innuendo, pop-eyed double-takes, bouncing breasts and unconsummated couplings. In other words, the usual compendium of Anglo-Saxon hang-ups played for laughs – and losing." [2]

Kim Newman wrote in Empire , "I'm Not Feeing Myself Tonight has a classic fnarr-fnarr title and the worst male and female fashions of 1975 (no wonder characters are always trying to take their clothes off), and mixes excruciating comedy with a vaguely offensive plot about a raygun which turns repressed Britons into sex maniacs." [3]

References

  1. ↑ "I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  2. ↑ "I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight". The Monthly Film Bulletin . 43 (504): 30. 1 January 1976. ProQuest   1305831643.
  3. ↑ Newman, Kim (February 2010). "Kim Newman's Video Dungeon". ProQuest. Retrieved 25 October 2025.
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