Toys Are Not for Children (1972)

Toys Are Not for Children: Directed by Stanley H. Brassloff. With Marcia Forbes, Harlan Cary Poe, Evelyn Kingsley, Luis Arroyo. Emotionally stunted child woman Jamie Godard not only suffers from an unhealthy fixation on her long absent father, but also has an obsession with all the toys he gave her as a little girl. After getting a job at a toy store, Jamie decides to marry co-worker Charlie Belmond. When the marriage doesn’t work out, Jamie runs away to New York City and becomes a prostitute who specializes in servicing perverted old men who want to play daddy with her.

“Toys Are Not For Children and this movie isnu0026#39;t for everyone. Aesthetically, it looks like it was scrapped together with a childu0026#39;s leftover lunch money, but the story, while sleazy, seems to have higher aspirations than low budget sleaze.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eA young woman has an unhealthy obsession with her father whom she never sees since her mother separated from him due to his various infidelities. She lives in a stunted kind of existence, still playing with toys he bought her. This infuriates her husband whose upset that she doesnu0026#39;t want to have sex with him. Unhappy with her life, she runs away and ends up befriending a middle aged high class prostitute who gets her into the worldu0026#39;s oldest profession where she meets men who are old enough to be her father and…well…letu0026#39;s just leave it at that.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIf one were to read this script, Iu0026#39;m sure it would practically ooze sleaze, but the film itself feels more like a slightly more edgy after school special with precious little actual nudity or sexual content. Performances are spirited in that grand old low budget film way and one could almost believe they were brought over from the John Waters or Andy Milligan flick filming a few states away.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eToys Are Not For Children does a great job of balancing true drama and sleaze.”