Back to the Beach

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Back to the Beach

Directed by	Lyndall Hobbs
Produced by	Frank Mancuso Jr.
Written by	James Komack, Bill L. Norton, Bruce Kirschbaum, Peter Krikes, Steve Meerson and Chris Thompson
Starring	Frankie Avalon Annette Funicello
Music by	Steve Dorff
Cinematography	Bruce Surtees
Editing by	David Finter
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	August 7, 1987
Running time	92 min.
Language	English
Budget	N/A
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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.

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

1 Plot summary
2 Main cast
3 Trivia
4 External links

[edit] Plot summary

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Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello are husband and wife living far from the surf and sand in Ohio. Heading to California to visit their daughter Sandi (Lori Loughlin), Frankie and Annette are appalled to learn that she has been making time with punker 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 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. Jerry Mathers, Tony Dow, Dick Dale, Stevie Ray Vaughan, O.J. Simpson, and Pee-wee Herman.

[edit] Main cast

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

[edit] Trivia

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Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello served as co-executive producers.

The film was also known as "Malibu Beach Girls".

Kirk R. Thatcher's punk song "I Hate You" was borrowed from fellow Paramount production Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986).

Throughout the movie, Frankie Avalon's character is only referred to as "The Big Kahuna", and never once is called by his first name. He is listed as "Annette's Husband" in the end credits. The name "Frankie" could not be used anywhere in the film, because Avalon played "Frankie" in the 1960s American International Beach Party films and legal issues were involved since this film was made by a different studio (Paramount Pictures).

After filming was completed, Annette Funicello was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. During filming, as a result of fatigue from long hours shooting the film, she had noticed an increase in the frequency and severity of minor MS symptoms that she had experienced off-and-on for several years, and requested that her husband tell no one on the set.

In one scene, Annette puts two jars of Skippy peanut butter into a cabinet already filled with Skippy. At the time, Annette was the real-life spokesperson for Skippy peanut butter.