Bachelor Party (film)

Infobox_Film
name = Bachelor Party


caption = The movie poster for "Bachelor Party".
amg_id = 1:3642
imdb_id = 0086927
writer = Bob Israel
Neal Israel
Pat Proft
starring = Tom Hanks
Tawny Kitaen
Adrian Zmed
Robert Prescott
Wendie Jo Sperber
Deborah Harmon
George Grizzard
Michael Dudikoff
Gary Grossman
producer = Bob Israel
Ron Moler
Raju Patel
director = Neal Israel
music = Robert Folk | cinematography = Hal Trussell
music = Robert Folk
editing = Tom Walls | distributor = 20th Century Fox
released = June 29, 1984
runtime = 105 min.
country = USA
language = English
budget = $6,000,000
gross = $38,400,000 (USA) and $19,070,000 in rentals (USA)
followed_by = ""

"Bachelor Party" is a 1984 comedy film starring Tom Hanks, Tawny Kitaen, Adrian Zmed, Robert Prescott, and Deborah Harmon, directed by Neal Israel.

Plot

In the film, party-animal Rick Gassko (Hanks) decides to settle down and marry his girlfriend Debbie Thompson (Kitaen), so his friends throw him one final debauchery-laden bash. Debbie suspects Rick of cheating on her at this bachelor party and, with the help of her friends and the spouse of her future brother-in-law, hatches a plan to catch him in the act.

A notorious scene in the film involves a quaalude-popping, cocaine-snorting donkey who dies of a drug overdose.

Pre-production

In 1981, Gary Grossman threw a bachelor party for his friend Bob Israel. Inspired by the occasion, Israel and fellow advertising specialist Ron Moler decided to produce a comedy about the ritual.fact|date=July 2008 As first-time producers, however, they needed to secure financial backing for the film. Normally, this would be accomplished by presenting potential backers a finished script. For "Bachelor Party", Israel and Moler instead created a mock ad campaign that so impressed Twin Continental Films that they provided the producers with the necessary funds to develop the project.

Israel brought in his brother Neal to direct, and together they worked out a storyline, that Neal and Pat Proft expanded into a final script. Realizing the project’s commercial potential, executive producer Joe Roth sent the screenplay - accompanied by the poster campaign - to 20th Century Fox, who agreed to distribute the film upon its completion.

Production

Filming of "Bachelor Party" began on August 15, 1983, and production was completed on November 11, 1983. Two days into production, filming was suspended and "Bachelor Party" went on hiatus for one month while the filmmakers recast the parts. Production resumed in September with the new cast. The following actors were replaced:fact|date=July 2008

*Paul Reiser - Rick Gassko (replaced by Tom Hanks)
*Kelly McGillis - Debbie Thompson (replaced by Tawny Kitaen)
*Andy Bumatai - Rudy LeForte (replaced by Barry Diamond)

equel

Twenty-four years after "Bachelor Party" was released, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment produced a straight-to-DVD sequel-in-name-only [http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6531114.html] called "".

Trivia

General trivia

* The restaurant where Ryko works is “A Drinking and Gathering Place”, according to the decal on the outside window. The name of the restaurant is obscured.
* The pin-ups on Rick and Debbie’s refrigerator are drawings of Flintstones characters.
* The movie Brad is watching on TV in the hotel room is "The Little Princess", a 1939 drama starring Shirley Temple.
* When Rick juggles 3 meatballs then throws in the pot, he misses the first throw, later it slides down from the grate.
* Rosanne Katon (Darlene, one of the “twins of pleasure”) was a centerfold in the September 1978 issue of "Playboy" magazine.
* The husband of the honeymoon couple is screenwriter Pat Proft.
* The space battle scenes on the movie screen (where Rick fights Cole) are from the 1980 movie "Battle Beyond the Stars".
* The producers seriously considered then-unknowns Jim Carrey, Tim Robbins and Howie Mandel for the role of Rick Gassko, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Linda Hamilton for the role of Debbie Thompson.fact|date=January 2008
* Tom Hanks said that he only did this movie for money.fact|date=July 2008

Bachelor Party in pop culture

* The film is referenced in the other films "Get Over It" (2001), "How High" (2001), and "Clerks II" (2006), as well as the 1995 "Wedding" episode of the television show "NewsRadio".

References

External links

* [http://www.bachelorpartymovie.com The Official "Bachelor Party" movie website]
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