Underplayed Gems

Illegally Yours (1988)

Illegally Yours poster
Directed by
Peter Bogdanovich
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 42m
Rated
PG
Rating
4.5 of 10 from 17 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A college dropout returns to his Florida hometown. He gets tangled in comic mishaps involving a blackmailer, a corpse, and a tape recording.

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What happens

Illegally Yours is a 1988 American comedy film set in St. Augustine, Florida where a series of comic mishaps take place involving a blackmailer, a corpse, an incriminating audiotape, an innocent woman who accidentally picks up the tape, and a pair of teenage blackmail victims. The film was directed by Peter Bogdanovich with Rob Lowe starring as Richard Dice, the college dropout who came back home to get his act together. The film's theme song was performed by Johnny Cash. The film was a critical and commercial failure. Bogdanovich himself considered it one of his worst films as a director. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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