“[GIOCHI EROTICI DI UNA FAMIGLIA PERBENE] was one of these sex flicks where the cameraman always measures the distance between the camera and your crotch, which makes for a very strange working atmosphere.”

— Donald O'Brien (actor)

Euro Trash Cinema magazine interview (March 1996)

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