Back to the Beach

Infobox Film
name = Back to the Beach


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director = Lyndall Hobbs
producer = Frank Mancuso Jr.
writer = James Komach
Bill L. Norton
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starring = Frankie Avalon
Annette Funicello
Lori Loughlin
Connie Stevens
Demian Slade
music = Steve Dorff
cinematography = Bruce Surtees
editing = David Finter
distributor = Paramount Pictures
released = flagicon|USA August 7 1987
runtime = 92 mins.
country = United States
language = English
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amg_id = 1:3669
imdb_id = 0092608

"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 Siskel and Ebert.

The film is an open parody of the beach party movies 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.

Tagline: "Fasten your seatbelts and get ready for a totally NEW WAVE motion picture experience."

Plot summary

Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello are husband and wife living in Ohio — far from the surf and sand of their earlier lives together. Heading to California to visit their daughter Sandi (Lori Loughlin), Frankie and Annette are appalled to learn that she has been making time with surfer Michael (Tommy Hinkley). In time-honored fashion, our hero and heroine set about to make the beach safe for fun-lovers everywhere by driving out Michael's unsavory friends.

Along the way, Frankie faces a challenge to his title from the younger surfers, and nearly ruins 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, Dick Dale, Stevie Ray Vaughan, O.J. Simpson, and Pee-wee Herman.

In the end, of course, The Big Kahuna proves that he is the king of surfers, and his title is safe.

Main cast

* Frankie Avalon - Frankie
* Annette Funicello - Annette
* Connie Stevens - Connie
* Lori Loughlin - Sandi
* Demian Slade - Bobby
* Tommy Hinkley - Michael
* Paul Reubens - Pee-wee Herman

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