Beverly Hills Family Robinson

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Beverly Hills Family Robinson is a 1997 American Walt Disney TV movie based on the novel Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss. The movie features Dyan Cannon, Martin Mull, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan O'Donohue as the main cast and was aired on ABC TV.

Marsha Robinson (Dyan Cannon) is a famous TV personality and has her own lifestyle and cooking show. Together with her husband Doug (Martin Mull), a dentist, her daughter Jane (the beutiful Sarah Michelle Gellar) and her son Roger(Ryan O'Donohue) she lives in Beverly Hills. Marsha's TV show takes her and her family to Hawaii. When the Robinsons arrive in Honolulu their yacht is captured by 'modern pirates' at night and when they wake up in the morning they find themselves and their unbidden guests on the open sea. But being the Robinsons they trick the pirates and leave them behind in a lifeboat.

When things finally seemed to be good and the Robinsons try to sail to the next harbor, the yacht gets into a storm and the family shipwrecks on a deserted island. Of course, Marshia Robinson - being a socialite - freaks out and threatens her husband with a nervous breakdown if they wouldn't be saved within the next 45 minutes and the rest of the family isn't fond of their situation, too. But nobody saves them, nobody knows where they are, the Robinsons themselves do not know where they actually are and so there's no other way for them then to settle down on that island and build a treehouse.

Life on the island turns into routine, although Marsha films herself while giving statements about her family's miserable situation after the shipwreck - just in case they'll be saved and she has footage for TV shows.

Meanwhile the pirates have stranded on the island, too, which the Robinsons do not know. And they also do not know that there is another person living on the island, a shipwrecked surfer named Digger, who secretly eats all of Marsha's chocolates. Finally the Robinsons get to know him when Doug has an underwater-accident and needs to be saved by a good swimmer. Jane falls in love with him. He helps the Robinsons finish their treehouse and becomes a member of the family.

The pirates discover the Robinsons and now the Robinsons need to struggle with the unbidden guests once again.