‘Nuts!’ is an Off-the-Wall Documentary About the Citizen Kane of Medical Quackery

Opening with an animation of goats having sex, Penny Lane’s Nuts! is a bright and batty documentary about people getting screwed. You can count the audience among them to a degree, but in a fun way. We’re lied to, but we’re not scammed. The film presents the life story of John R. Brinkley, an entrepreneurial doctor who claimed to cure impotence in men b…