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| name = Back to the Beach |
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| image = Back to the Beach film poster.jpg |
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| director = [[Lyndall Hobbs]] |
| director = [[Lyndall Hobbs]] |
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| producer = [[Frank Mancuso, Jr.]] |
| producer = [[Frank Mancuso, Jr.]] |
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| story = [[James |
| story = [[James Komack]]<br>Bruce Kirschbaum<br>[[Bill L. Norton]] |
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| writer = [[Peter Krikes]]<br>[[Steve Meerson]]<br>[[Chris Thompson (TV producer)|Christopher Thompson]] |
| writer = [[Peter Krikes]]<br>[[Steve Meerson]]<br>[[Chris Thompson (TV producer)|Christopher Thompson]] |
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| starring = [[Frankie Avalon]]<br>[[Annette Funicello]]<br>[[Lori Loughlin]]<br>[[Connie Stevens]] <br>[[Demian Slade]] |
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* [[Joe Holland (actor and director)|Joe Holland]] |
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| music = [[Steve Dorff]] |
| music = [[Steve Dorff]] |
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| cinematography = [[Bruce Surtees]] |
| cinematography = [[Bruce Surtees]] |
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| editing = [[David |
| editing = [[David Finfer]] |
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| distributor = [[Paramount Pictures]] |
| distributor = [[Paramount Pictures]] |
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| released = |
| released = {{Film date|1987|08|07|U.S.}} |
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| runtime = 92 minutes |
| runtime = 92 minutes |
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| country = United States |
| country = United States |
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| language = English |
| language = English |
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| budget = |
| budget = $12 million |
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| gross = $13 |
| gross = $13.1 million<ref name=BOM>{{cite Box Office Mojo|id=0092608 |title=Back to the Beach (1987)|accessdate= December 26, 2022}}</ref> |
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'''''Back to the Beach''''' is a 1987 [[comedy film]] starring [[Frankie Avalon]] and [[Annette Funicello]], directed by [[Lyndall Hobbs]]. The original music score is composed by [[Steve Dorff]]. The film generated a total domestic gross of $13,110,903. It received a "two thumbs up" rating from [[At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper|Siskel and Ebert]]. |
'''''Back to the Beach''''' is a 1987 American [[comedy film]] starring [[Frankie Avalon]] and [[Annette Funicello]], directed by [[Lyndall Hobbs]]. The original music score is composed by [[Steve Dorff]]. The film generated a total domestic gross of $13,110,903. It received a "two thumbs up" rating from [[At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper|Siskel and Ebert]], who compared it favorably to [[Grease (film)|''Grease'']]. |
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The film is an open parody of the beach party |
The film is an open parody of the [[beach party film]]s made popular in the 1960s, especially those in which Avalon and Funicello had appeared. The plot is merely the means of connecting the various sight gags, homages and in-jokes. All character names are taken from those earlier films.<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|title=Beach Party Movies Part 4: End of Summer|date=20 October 2024|access-date=22 October 2024|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/beach-party-movies-part-4-end-of-summer/}}</ref> |
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The film's soundtrack included covers of several well-known beach tunes, along with new songs by such artists as [[Aimee Mann]] and [[Private Domain (band)|Private Domain]]. |
The film's soundtrack included covers of several well-known beach tunes, along with new songs by such artists as [[Aimee Mann]] and [[Private Domain (band)|Private Domain]]. |
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==Plot== |
==Plot== |
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Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello are husband and wife living in Ohio — far from the surf and sand of their earlier lives together. |
Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello are a husband and wife living in [[Ohio]] — far from the surf and sand of their earlier lives together. Frankie is a stressed out car salesman and former "Big Kahuna" of the surf scene in [[California]] while Annette bottles her own sense of angst up in a bevy of shopping. Together they are raising a son, Bobby, who is in the throes of rebellion against his seemingly square folks. |
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One day, the family decides to take a vacation to [[Hawaii]]. Deciding to stop in California to visit their daughter Sandi ([[Lori Loughlin]]), Frankie and Annette are appalled to learn that she has been living with surfer Michael ([[Tommy Hinkley]]). The family misses their flight to Hawaii, and ultimately end up staying in California, much to the chagrin of Frankie. Frankie and Annette get caught up with the lives of their old friends and their old beach, and thus their last beach adventure begins. |
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⚫ | Along the way, Frankie must work together with a new generation of younger surfers while nearly ruining his marriage by dallying with [[Connie Stevens]] — one of several pop-culture icons appearing in the film, including [[Fishbone]], [[Don Adams]], [[Bob Denver]], [[Alan Hale Jr.]], [[Edd Byrnes]], [[Jerry Mathers]], [[Tony Dow]], [[Barbara Billingsley]], [[Dick Dale]], [[Stevie Ray Vaughan]], [[O. J. Simpson]], and [[Pee-wee Herman]]. In the end ''The Big Kahuna'' overcomes his own fears and proves that he is still the king of the surfers, as he takes back his title and saves the beach from a gang of beach punks led by Zed ([[Joe Holland (actor and director)|Joe Holland]]). |
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In the end ''The Big Kahuna'' proves that he is the king of surfers, and his title is safe. |
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==Cast== |
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* [[Frankie Avalon]] as Frankie |
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* [[Annette Funicello]] as Annette |
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* [[Lori Loughlin]] as Sandi |
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* [[Tommy Hinkley]] as Michael |
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* [[Connie Stevens]] as Connie |
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* [[Joe Holland (actor and director)|Joe Holland]] as Zed |
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* [[Dick Dale]] as himself |
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* [[Don Adams]] as The Harbormaster |
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* [[Alan Hale Jr.]] as Bartender's Buddy |
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* [[Paul Reubens]] as [[Pee-wee Herman]] |
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The film was the idea of Frankie Avalon and was in development for a number of years. He hired several screenwriters and shopped the screenplay around town. Paramount was attracted to the project but did not like the script. Because [[Orion Pictures]] owned the rights to the original AIP [[Beach party film|"beach party movies"]], Paramount wanted to make (in the words of one spokesperson) "an entirely original screenplay not based on any prior beach movies. It parodies all beach movies."<ref name="times"/> |
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Writer-director [[James Komack]] shared the same agent as Avalon; when he became attached Paramount agreed to finance. Komack stated: |
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<blockquote>I met with [[Ned Tanen]] (Paramount's production chief) and we agreed it would be about a middle-age marital life crisis which, through a series of happy events, allows the couple to recapture their youth and renew the relationship. Eventually, they wanted a picture I couldn't deliver. They wanted to camp it up and I felt it wasn't necessary.<ref name="times"/></blockquote> |
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Eventually Paramount hired [[Lyndall Hobbs]] to direct; she had never made a feature before but had directed numerous music videos. Various writers were hired, seventeen in all, including Jeff Buhia & Steve Zacharias, Robert Kaufman, David Obst and Bill Norton Jr. This cost an estimated $2 million in writer's fees.<ref name="times">{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-07-05-ca-2209-story.html|title=WRITE THE WILD SURF|author=Klady, Leonard|work=Los Angeles Times|date=5 July 1987|page=K21|access-date=18 December 2014}}</ref> |
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Funicello called it her favourite filmmaking experience since ''[[Babes in Toyland (1961 movie)|Babes in Toyland]]''.<ref>{{cite book|title=A dream is a wish your heart makes : my story|last1=Funicello|first1= Annette|last2= Bashe|first2= Patricia Romanowski|year=1994 |publisher=Hyperion|page=202}}</ref> However it was during the making of the movie she first started developing symptoms of MS.<ref>Funicello p 188-190</ref> |
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==Reception== |
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[[Rotten Tomatoes]] gives the film a rating of 78% from 18 reviews.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/back_to_the_beach | title=Back to the Beach | website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] }}</ref> |
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==Soundtrack== |
==Soundtrack== |
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The soundtrack for this film was released in 1987 on CBS Records (CK-40892). Track listing (key performers in parentheses): |
The soundtrack for this film was released in 1987 on CBS Records (CK-40892). Track listing (key performers in parentheses): |
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# "Catch a Ride" |
# "Catch a Ride" ([[Eddie Money]]) |
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# "[[Pipeline (instrumental)|Pipeline]]" ([[Stevie Ray Vaughan]] & [[Dick Dale]]) (This track also appears on the Stevie Ray Vaughan album ''Solos, Sessions & Encores''.) |
# "[[Pipeline (instrumental)|Pipeline]]" ([[Stevie Ray Vaughan]] & [[Dick Dale]]) (This track also appears on the Stevie Ray Vaughan album ''Solos, Sessions & Encores'', and on ''King of the Surf Guitar: The Best of Dick Dale & The Del-Tones'' (Rhino 1989).) |
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# "Sign of Love" ([['Til Tuesday]] & [[Aimee Mann]]) |
# "Sign of Love" ([['Til Tuesday]] & [[Aimee Mann]]) |
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# "Absolute Perfection" |
# "Absolute Perfection" ([[Private Domain]]) |
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# "[[Surfin' Bird]]" ([[Pee-wee Herman]]) |
# "[[Surfin' Bird]]" ([[Pee-wee Herman]]) |
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# "Sun, Sun, Sun, Sun, Sun" |
# "Sun, Sun, Sun, Sun, Sun" (Marti Jones) |
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# "Jamaica Ska" (Funicello & [[Fishbone]]) |
# "Jamaica Ska" (Funicello & [[Fishbone]]) |
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# "[[Wipe Out (instrumental)|Wipe Out]]" |
# "[[Wipe Out (instrumental)|Wipe Out]]" ([[Herbie Hancock]] with [[Dweezil Zappa]] and [[Terry Bozzio]]) |
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# "California Sun" (Avalon) |
# "California Sun" (Avalon) |
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# "[[Wooly Bully]]" |
# "[[Wooly Bully]]" (Dave Edmunds) |
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Three other songs, “When I Go To The Beach”, by [[The Slickee Boys]], "We'll Go on Forever", sung by the cast, and "I Hate You" (from ''[[Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home]]'') are not included on the album. |
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In her memoirs Funicello wrote that she and Avalon were preparing a sequel where their characters go on safari in [[Africa]], but that her illness meant she pulled out. However she did agree to go on a "Back to the Beach" tour with Avalon on stage.<ref>Funicello p 202-203</ref> |
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The film was the idea of Frankie Avalon and was in development for a number of years. Although Orion Pictures held the rights to AIP, the movie was made by a different studio (Paramount), and so had no direct links to the original beach party series. An estimated 17 writers worked on the script at a cost of $2 million.<ref>WRITE THE WILD SURF |
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Klady, Leonard. Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] 05 July 1987: K21.</ref> |
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==References== |
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Latest revision as of 12:51, 22 December 2024
Back to the Beach | |
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Directed by | Lyndall Hobbs |
Written by | Peter Krikes Steve Meerson Christopher Thompson |
Story by | James Komack Bruce Kirschbaum Bill L. Norton |
Produced by | Frank Mancuso, Jr. |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Bruce Surtees |
Edited by | David Finfer |
Music by | Steve Dorff |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $12 million |
Box office | $13.1 million[1] |
Back to the Beach is a 1987 American comedy film starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello, directed by Lyndall Hobbs. The original music score is composed by Steve Dorff. The film generated a total domestic gross of $13,110,903. It received a "two thumbs up" rating from Siskel and Ebert, who compared it favorably to Grease.
The film is an open parody of the beach party films made popular in the 1960s, especially those in which Avalon and Funicello had appeared. The plot is merely the means of connecting the various sight gags, homages and in-jokes. All character names are taken from those earlier films.[2]
The film's soundtrack included covers of several well-known beach tunes, along with new songs by such artists as Aimee Mann and Private Domain.
Plot
[edit]Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello are a husband and wife living in Ohio — far from the surf and sand of their earlier lives together. Frankie is a stressed out car salesman and former "Big Kahuna" of the surf scene in California while Annette bottles her own sense of angst up in a bevy of shopping. Together they are raising a son, Bobby, who is in the throes of rebellion against his seemingly square folks.
One day, the family decides to take a vacation to Hawaii. Deciding to stop in California to visit their daughter Sandi (Lori Loughlin), Frankie and Annette are appalled to learn that she has been living with surfer Michael (Tommy Hinkley). The family misses their flight to Hawaii, and ultimately end up staying in California, much to the chagrin of Frankie. Frankie and Annette get caught up with the lives of their old friends and their old beach, and thus their last beach adventure begins.
Along the way, Frankie must work together with a new generation of younger surfers while nearly ruining his marriage by dallying with Connie Stevens — one of several pop-culture icons appearing in the film, including Fishbone, Don Adams, Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Edd Byrnes, Jerry Mathers, Tony Dow, Barbara Billingsley, Dick Dale, Stevie Ray Vaughan, O. J. Simpson, and Pee-wee Herman. In the end The Big Kahuna overcomes his own fears and proves that he is still the king of the surfers, as he takes back his title and saves the beach from a gang of beach punks led by Zed (Joe Holland).
Cast
[edit]- Frankie Avalon as Frankie
- Annette Funicello as Annette
- Lori Loughlin as Sandi
- Tommy Hinkley as Michael
- Demian Slade as Bobby
- Connie Stevens as Connie
- Joe Holland as Zed
- John Calvin as Troy
- David Bowe as 'Mountain'
- Laura Urstein as Robin
- Linda Carol as Bridgette
- Dick Dale as himself
- Stevie Ray Vaughan as himself
- Fishbone as Themselves
- Don Adams as The Harbormaster
- Barbara Billingsley as Announcer
- Edd Byrnes as Valet
- Bob Denver as The Bartender
- Tony Dow as Judge #1
- Alan Hale Jr. as Bartender's Buddy
- Jerry Mathers as Judge #2
- Paul Reubens as Pee-wee Herman
Production
[edit]The film was the idea of Frankie Avalon and was in development for a number of years. He hired several screenwriters and shopped the screenplay around town. Paramount was attracted to the project but did not like the script. Because Orion Pictures owned the rights to the original AIP "beach party movies", Paramount wanted to make (in the words of one spokesperson) "an entirely original screenplay not based on any prior beach movies. It parodies all beach movies."[3]
Writer-director James Komack shared the same agent as Avalon; when he became attached Paramount agreed to finance. Komack stated:
I met with Ned Tanen (Paramount's production chief) and we agreed it would be about a middle-age marital life crisis which, through a series of happy events, allows the couple to recapture their youth and renew the relationship. Eventually, they wanted a picture I couldn't deliver. They wanted to camp it up and I felt it wasn't necessary.[3]
Eventually Paramount hired Lyndall Hobbs to direct; she had never made a feature before but had directed numerous music videos. Various writers were hired, seventeen in all, including Jeff Buhia & Steve Zacharias, Robert Kaufman, David Obst and Bill Norton Jr. This cost an estimated $2 million in writer's fees.[3]
Funicello called it her favourite filmmaking experience since Babes in Toyland.[4] However it was during the making of the movie she first started developing symptoms of MS.[5]
Reception
[edit]Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a rating of 78% from 18 reviews.[6]
Soundtrack
[edit]The soundtrack for this film was released in 1987 on CBS Records (CK-40892). Track listing (key performers in parentheses):
- "Catch a Ride" (Eddie Money)
- "Pipeline" (Stevie Ray Vaughan & Dick Dale) (This track also appears on the Stevie Ray Vaughan album Solos, Sessions & Encores, and on King of the Surf Guitar: The Best of Dick Dale & The Del-Tones (Rhino 1989).)
- "Sign of Love" ('Til Tuesday & Aimee Mann)
- "Absolute Perfection" (Private Domain)
- "Surfin' Bird" (Pee-wee Herman)
- "Sun, Sun, Sun, Sun, Sun" (Marti Jones)
- "Jamaica Ska" (Funicello & Fishbone)
- "Wipe Out" (Herbie Hancock with Dweezil Zappa and Terry Bozzio)
- "California Sun" (Avalon)
- "Wooly Bully" (Dave Edmunds)
Three other songs, “When I Go To The Beach”, by The Slickee Boys, "We'll Go on Forever", sung by the cast, and "I Hate You" (from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home) are not included on the album.
Proposed sequel
[edit]In her memoirs Funicello wrote that she and Avalon were preparing a sequel where their characters go on safari in Africa, but that her illness meant she pulled out. However she did agree to go on a "Back to the Beach" tour with Avalon on stage.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Back to the Beach (1987)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved December 26, 2022.
- ^ Vagg, Stephen (20 October 2024). "Beach Party Movies Part 4: End of Summer". Filmink. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
- ^ a b c Klady, Leonard (5 July 1987). "WRITE THE WILD SURF". Los Angeles Times. p. K21. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
- ^ Funicello, Annette; Bashe, Patricia Romanowski (1994). A dream is a wish your heart makes : my story. Hyperion. p. 202.
- ^ Funicello p 188-190
- ^ "Back to the Beach". Rotten Tomatoes.
- ^ Funicello p 202-203
External links
[edit]- 1987 films
- 1980s musical comedy films
- 1980s sports comedy films
- American musical comedy films
- Beach party films
- Films directed by Lyndall Hobbs
- Films scored by Steve Dorff
- Films set in California
- Films set in Ohio
- Paramount Pictures films
- Pee-wee Herman
- Films with screenplays by Peter Krikes
- Films with screenplays by Steve Meerson
- American surfing films
- 1987 directorial debut films
- 1987 comedy films
- 1980s English-language films
- 1980s American films
- Films produced by Frank Mancuso Jr.
- Films about salespeople
- English-language musical comedy films
- English-language sports comedy films
- 1987 musical films