Organisers of this year’s New York Film Festival starting in September believe they have finally sorted out how to categorise a new film (main picture) featuring former President Donald Trump and his daughter-in-law Lara Trump, now co-chair of the Republican Party’s national organisation wing, the Republican National Committee.

The film follows the pair as they embark on their latest money-making venture, selling “God Bless the USA” Bibles for US$60 – that’s about $92 in our money. (below)

I am told by my sources within the NY Film Festival that the Trump film has caused confusion when it came to categorising it for members of the judging panel who’ll start their assessments of competition entrants in coming months.

“The organisers at first believed the film was a straightforward remake of the late US director Peter Bogdanovich’s 1973 hit Paper Moon,” one source told me.

Older readers of my columns will recall the highly entertaining black-and-white movie starring the late Ryan O’Neal and his real-life eight-year-old daughter Tatum O’Neal, who incidentally won an Oscar for best supporting actress for her performance.

Set in the Great Depression era of 1930s America the film (below) was all about the adventurers of an unscrupulous con man Moses Pray and a young girl Addie Loggins he is forced to take on a road trip to deliver to her relatives after her mother dies.

The key to the unscrupulous and malevolent Pray’s grift is for him to pose as a deeply religious individual while conning people into buying Bibles they clearly can’t afford in the belief a recently deceased relatives had ordered them but just hadn’t paid.

“That’s where the confusion over the Trump film started,” my source explained. “Festival organisers initially slotted the film into the ‘best drama’ category, then swapped it to compete for ‘best documentary’, before having a rethink and categorising it as a comedy.

“But just today they’ve made a final decision and the film will now be up against US and foreign efforts for the ‘best horror film’ award,” my source said.

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