Illegally Yours is a 1988 American comedy film[2] 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[2] with Rob Lowe[2] starring as Richard Dice, the college dropout who came back home to get his act together.

[3] Bogdanovich was going to direct Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastrioanni in Saturday, Sunday, Monday but the film was delayed so he did this instead.

[5] The film was a change of pace for Rob Lowe, who was much in demand at the time due to the success of About Last Night.

[7] Lowe felt the movie needed a name co-star but Bogdanovich insisted he use his old friend and collaborator Colleen Camp.

[9] Lowe said he went along with the changes because he "loved Peter" although he ultimately felt "every artist can chase his own vision into a blind alley.

[13] However, during a test screening, reportedly half the audience walked out and the release date was pushed back to May 1988.

"[14] The De Laurentis Group ran into financial troubles and the release date kept being delayed.

"[16] Bogdanovich said he had "high hopes for" the film "but it was re-cut completely by Dino De Laurentiis.

[19] Variety called it, "an embarrassingly unfunny attempt at screwball comedy, marking a career nadir for producer-director Peter Bogdanovich and his miscast star Rob Lowe.

Has the hallmarks of many Bogdanovich flops, i.e. endless long takes of people yabbering without it being funny.