High school senior Leslie Hindenberg (Meyrink) is convinced she’s dying following a medical exam. Believing she has only six weeks left to live and determined to not die a virgin, Leslie sets out on a mission to lose her virginity before her presumed untimely demise. JOY OF SEX is a raucous, ribald, and feminist 80s sex comedy directed by Martha Coolidge (Valley Girl, Real Genius), and an often overlooked coming-of-age comedy from one of the freshest American filmmakers of the ’80s. – adapted from notes for Cinématographe
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