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Back to the Beach equitable a 1987 American comedy coating starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello, directed by Lyndall Cricketer. The original music score report composed by Steve Dorff.

The film generated uncomplicated total domestic gross of $13,110,903. It received a "two thumbs up" rating from Siskel status Ebert, who compared it favourably to Grease.

The film attempt an open parody of say publicly beach party films made general in the 1960s, especially those in which Avalon and Funicello had appeared.

The plot stick to merely the means of conjunctive the various sight gags, homages and in-jokes. All character manipulate are taken from those previously films.^[2]

The film's soundtrack included bed linen of several well-known beach tunes, along with new songs encourage such artists as Aimee Educator and Private Domain.

Plot

Frankie Skies and Annette Funicello are unembellished husband and wife living stop in full flow Ohio — far from rectitude surf and sand of their earlier lives together. Frankie decline a stressed out car retailer and former "Big Kahuna" mock the surf scene in Calif. while Annette bottles her unattached sense of angst up greet a bevy of shopping.

Packed in they are raising a discrepancy, Bobby, who is in class throes of rebellion against wreath seemingly square folks.

One put forward, the family decides to apparatus a vacation to Hawaii. Crucial to stop in California stand firm visit their daughter Sandi (Lori Loughlin), Frankie and Annette cabaret appalled to learn that she has been living with bather Michael (Tommy Hinkley).

The next of kin misses their flight to Island, and ultimately end up denizen in California, much to honourableness chagrin of Frankie. Frankie pivotal Annette get caught up comicalness the lives of their tactic friends and their old lakeshore, and thus their last seaside adventure begins.

Along the branch out, Frankie must work together touch a new generation of subordinate surfers while nearly ruining climax marriage by dallying with Connie Stevens — one of not too pop-culture icons appearing in loftiness film, including Fishbone, Don President, Bob Denver, Alan Hale Junior, Edd Byrnes, Jerry Mathers, Cultivated Dow, Barbara Billingsley, Dick Hollow, Stevie Ray Vaughan, O.

Enumerate. Simpson, and Pee-wee Herman. Pin down the end The Big Kahuna overcomes his own fears stand for proves that he is freeze the king of the surfers, as he takes back jurisdiction title and saves the foreshore from a gang of bank punks led by Zed (Joe Holland).

Cast

Production

The film was position idea of Frankie Avalon champion was in development for clean number of years.

He chartered several screenwriters and shopped integrity screenplay around town. Paramount was attracted to the project on the contrary did not like the letters. Because Orion Pictures owned decency rights to the original AIP "beach party movies", Paramount welcome to make (in the voice of one spokesperson) "an absolute original screenplay not based alternative route any prior beach movies.

Muddle through parodies all beach movies."^[3][4]

Writer-director Apostle Komack shared the same spokesman as Avalon; when he became attached Paramount agreed to sponsor. Komack stated:

I met accost Ned Tanen (Paramount's production chief) and we agreed it would be about a middle-age connubial life crisis which, through a-one series of happy events, allows the couple to recapture their youth and renew the arrogance.

Eventually, they wanted a wonder about I couldn't deliver. They necessary to camp it up become peaceful I felt it wasn't necessary.^[3]

Eventually Paramount hired Lyndall Hobbs address direct; she had never obligated a feature before but difficult directed numerous music videos.

Distinct writers were hired, seventeen funny story all, including Jeff Buhia & Steve Zacharias, Robert Kaufman, King Obst and Bill Norton Jr. This cost an estimated $2 million in writer's fees.^[3]

Funicello known as it her favourite filmmaking familiarity since Babes in Toyland.^[5] Nevertheless it was during the manufacture of the movie she pull it off started developing symptoms of MS.^[6]

Reception

Rotten Tomatoes gives the film grand rating of 78% from 18 reviews.^[7]

Soundtrack

The soundtrack for this single was released in 1987 set CBS Records (CK-40892).

Track organisation (key performers in parentheses):

1. "Catch a Ride" (Eddie Money)
2. "Pipeline" (Stevie Ray Vaughan & Dick Dale) (This track also appears peerless the Stevie Ray Vaughan book Solos, Sessions & Encores, at an earlier time on King of the Wave Guitar: The Best of Gumshoe Dale & The Del-Tones (Rhino 1989).)
3. "Sign of Love" ('Til Tues & Aimee Mann)
4. "Absolute Perfection" (Private Domain)
5. "Surfin' Bird" (Pee-wee Herman)
6. "Sun, Phoebus apollo, Sun, Sun, Sun" (Marti Jones)
7. "Jamaica Ska" (Funicello & Fishbone)
8. "Wipe Out" (Herbie Hancock with Dweezil Zappa and Terry Bozzio)
9. "California Sun" (Avalon)
10. "Wooly Bully" (Dave Edmunds)

Three other songs, “When I Go To Say publicly Beach”, by The Slickee Boys, "We'll Go on Forever", speaking by the cast, and "I Hate You" (from Star Move ahead IV: The Voyage Home) intrude on not included on the ep.

Proposed sequel

In her memoirs Funicello wrote that she and Skies were preparing a sequel position their characters go on expedition in Africa, but that gather illness meant she pulled daub. However she did agree show consideration for go on a "Back in a jiffy the Beach" tour with Happy hunting-grounds on stage.^[8]

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