Not for Publication

Not for Publication is a 1984 screwball comedy film directed by Paul Bartel and starring Nancy Allen. It premiered at the 1985 Sundance Film Festival before being acquired for distribution by Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment. David Naughton, Laurence Luckinbill, Alan Rosenberg, and Alice Ghostley also appear.

If the Perils of Pauline were set in a campy New York City with a dash of trash added in, Not for Publication would result, though the awful jokes and kinky characters are not going to be entertaining to everyone. Lois is a reporter at a sleazoid newspaper, a paragon of yellow journalism that she is determined to turn back to its first incarnation as The New York Enforcer, a better paper. The notsogood Mayor Franklyn adopts Lois as his personal assistant when she bursts into his office one day and strongly advises him to cut the pressure to shut down porn shops or he will lose the vote of New Yorks youth. She hires photographer Barry Denver to work in the mayors office, planning to use his skills for her tabloid paper but then a quirky menage trois arises between the mayor, the photographer, and Lois. After some undercover sleuthing in Long Island and help from a host of unsavory characters like Senor Wopperico and Troppogrosso Lois connects the mayor to various robberies that have occurred in the city and thinks of a way to return the New York Enforcer to its heyday and handle the mayor at the same time.Rex Reed called Not for Publication a delictable treat. While TV Guide offered even wider praise saying The story is wildly improbable and sometimes hilariously funny. The dialog is inventive and the characters bizarre, and it all smacks of those cult movies that will have a long life in the Saturday night midnight shows around the country. ........

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