Out of Sight

It looks like “Me & Him” is on the shelf--at least as far as American audiences are concerned.

“I hear it’s having distribution problems,” said star Griffin Dunne, who laughingly likened the Columbia comedy to “Harvey” . . . “only in that one, Jimmy Stewart talked to a rabbit.” In this one, a man converses with his penis.

A source close to the studio said the film is off the studio release list, which “indicates that the studio is considering selling it off.”

Columbia acquired distribution rights to “Me & Him”--the first English-language film from West Germany’s Doris Dorrie (“Men”)--during the David Puttnam era. But the studio’s current regime, under Dawn Steel, reportedly foresees marketing problems. (Our calls to a Columbia P.R. exec weren’t returned.)

Early P.R. materials dubbed the movie “a comedy about men and women and what stands between them.” Filmed in the fall of 1987, it has Dunne teamed romantically with Ellen Greene.

“The point was never to make a tasteful movie,” admitted Dunne, who stressed “there’s nothing explicit” on screen--you never see my ‘co-star.’ ”

Meanwhile, Nelson Ent., which is distributing the film overseas, senses it may have a hit. After less than a month’s release in West Germany, reports Nelson veep Peter Graves, the pic had amazing ticket sales of more than 24 million deutsche marks--that’s $13.4 million U.S.