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Back to the Beach

  • Rated PG
  • 1hr 32m
  • 62

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Lyndall Hobbs

Producer:

Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Frank Mancuso Jr.

Writer:

James Komack, Bill Norton, Bruce Kirschbaum

Release Date:

Aug 7, 1987

Runtime:

1hr 32m

Synopsis

Frankie and Annette, having grown up and put aside their beach-partying lifestyle, visit their daughter in Southern California and discover there's still some wild times left in them.

Cast

  • Frankie Avalon
  • Annette Funicello
  • Lori Loughlin
  • Tommy Hinkley
  • Demian Slade
  • Connie Stevens
  • Joe Holland
  • John Calvin
  • David Bowe
  • Laura Lanoil

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88

I don't know what I was expecting from Back to the Beach, but it certainly wasn't the funniest, quirkiest musical comedy since Little Shop of Horrors. Who would have thought Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello would make their best beach party movie 25 years after the others?

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Metacritic review by Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
88

It's a clever premise that is fully realized with old songs, old TV performers and new ones, too. This could become as big a cult movie as Pee- wee's Big Adventure. It certainly is more entertaining than that film and even more fun than Grease.

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Metacritic review by Gene Siskel
Gene Siskel
Chicago Tribune
40

Back to the Beach opened yesterday. But if you catch a television commercial for it, or the rock video that's on television, you'll get the joke and see the most this movie has to offer.

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Metacritic review by Caryn James
Caryn James
The New York Times
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