Product Details

• Actors: Rob Lowe, Colleen Camp, Kenneth Mars, Kim Myers, Marshall Colt
• Directors: Peter Bogdanovich
• Writers: M.A. Stewart, Max Dickens
• Producers: George Morfogen, Peter Bogdanovich, Peggy Robertson, Steve Foley, William Pfeiffer
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
• VHS Release Date: September 1, 1998
• Run Time: 102 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302923085
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #395,747 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A true delight !, November 20, 2009

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Raymond Salazar (San Francisco,CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Illegally Yours (DVD)

This was a film I had not heard of but decided to give it a chance. I was pleasantly surprised and laughed a lot. Very witty thoughout. It's fun in a Monkey Business - Bringing Up Baby - His Girl Friday sort of way. Strongly recommended !

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Bogdanovich is a gambler, September 3, 2001

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Peter Shelley "petershelley" (Sydney, New South Wales Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Illegally Yours [VHS] (VHS Tape)

It's telling that director Peter Bogdanovich made this film in between Mask in 1985 and Texasville in 1990, having endured a much publicised antipathy with Cher over Mask, and the loss of Dorothy Stratten just before They All Laughed was released in 1981. The latter was a return to the form of farce which he had peaked with What's Up Doc? In 1972. However as with the later Noises Off in 1985, Bogdanovich's sense of audience tolerance had gone off and while Noises Off and this film show his skill in staging antics, quick editing and frenetic performances, they also ultimately become exhausting experiences. This film has a weaker screenplay by M A Stewart and Max Dickens, whereby the narrative concerning a dead politician and a woman on trial set in Florida at Christmas, read as convoluted blather, with the narration presumably an afterthought in an attempt at clarity. Bogdanovich uses his familiar schtich with a clumsy leading man modelled on Cary Grant in Bringing Up Baby via Ryan O'Neal in What's Up Doc?, multiple pursuers, bags, and crashing cars. Rob Lowe as Richard Dice is surprisably likeable as a man on jury duty in the trial of his school sweetheart, Cathleen Camp. Bogdanovich even gives Lowe a drag scene a la Bringing up Baby, and a geeky brother to have twin archetypes. But he doesn't highlight the deadpan humour we have seen Camp deliver elsewhere, prefering instead to present her as a Cybill Shepherd type sassy haughty beauty. Some of the supporting cast have a few redemptive eccentric moments, particularly Jessica James as Lowe's mother, but the loud Johnny Cash song Love is a gambler on the soundtrack clues us that Bogdanovich is trying too hard, or not enough.

3.0 out of 5 stars Rob Lowe in an unexpected role. Seriously silly. Not one of my favorties!!!, October 10, 2011

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Frances L Mutz - See all my reviews

This review is from: Illegally Yours (DVD)

I have been watching a lot of Rob Lowe movies lately. The role he plays in this movie is not at all what I have come to expect from the character he plays. It was so silly, that I spent to whole time laughing because he acted so silly. All of the characters were a total hoot. He was not the only one that acted silly. They all did. If the director was trying to create a movie that was a laugh a minute, he truly succeeded on this one. I am collecting Rob Lowe movies, but this is not one I am planning to collect. Other people may enjoy it, just because it is so silly. It was just not my cup of tea. If you like to laugh a whole lot. This would be a good movie for you.