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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Mild Violence, Nudity, Not For Children, Adult Language, Profanity Movie Release: 1984 DVD Release: 05/06/2003 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 27 mins Studio: Anchor Bay Members Wishing: 1 Genres: Comedy, Detective Film

If the Perils of Pauline were set in a campy New York City with a dash of trash added in, Not for Publication would result, though the awful jokes and kinky characters are not going to be entertaining to everyone.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 (Nancy Allen) 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 not-so-good Mayor Franklyn (Laurence Luckinbill) 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 York's youth. She hires a photographer (David Naughton) to work in the mayor's office, planning to use his skills for her tabloid paper -- but then a quirky menage à trois arises between the mayor, the photographer, and Lois. After some undercover sleuthing in Long Island, Lois connects the mayor to various robberies that have occurred in the city and thinks of a way to bring back the New York Enforcer and handle the mayor at the same time. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

Nancy Allen - Lois
David Naughton - Barry
Laurence Luckinbill - Mayor Claude Franklyn
Alice Ghostley - Doris

Paul Bartel's 1984 comedy Not for Publication arrives on DVD for the first time from Anchor Bay with a widescreen anamorphic transfer enhanced for 16 x 9 televisions. The Dolby Digital Mono soundtrack is in English. Closed captions are accessible. Special features include a Bartel biography, theatrical trailer, and a 16-minute documentary. Titled "The Importance of Being Paul," the documentary is an exclusive feature about the late character actor/director Bartel, featuring interviews with fellow actors Mary Woronov and Tab Hunter. This is a respectable disc for a mediocre film. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide