Best Beach Movies
Now that summer time is just around the corner, many citizen are starting to dream about the sand and surf. Exotic beach destinations have always been a favorite go to place for the summer holidays. It's not a surprise, given the warm deep blue oceans, the brilliant white sand and the scrumptious eats that most beach locales have to offer. While many beaches are affordable, think Thailand, think the beautiful shores of South Africa, today's economic hardships make far off vacations hard to come by.
So instead of heading of to fairer climes, many Americans are staying in. Instead of going to the beach, the beach will come to them. Here's a list of some of the most beach movies of all time. You can flick on your satellite Tv, make some cocktails and stick a few umbrellas in them for effect. It's not exactly the same as being at the beach in person, but these movies will still make you grin.
Back to the Beach: This 1987 movie stars Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. They came back together to do this fun microscopic beach movie spoof, which light heartedly mocks the predominant beach flicks of the 1960's. Funicello and Avalon head back to the beach, all grown up this time, with their own children. This film sports some great parody scenes, that you won't get unless you've seen the original beach movies; don't worry, though you have an whole summer to catch up.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High: This movie marked director and writer Cameron Crowe's, of practically predominant and Elizabethtown fame, film debut. It was beyond doubt a great start to a brilliant career. This 1982 movie starred Sean Penn as Jeff Spicoli, Phoebe Cates as Linda Barrett, Jennifer Jason Leigh as Stacy Hamilton, Judge Reinhold as Brad, and a host of other stars including Nicolas Cage, Forest Whitaker and Eric Stolz. The movie details the lives of young high school students in California. This is a true superior and can still be found on the airwaves courtesy of satellite Tv.
Girls Girls Girls: Two words: Elvis Presley. Indeed, this flick starred the King himself alongside a host of pretty girls, boats and lots of beach. Made in 1962, this musical comedy, has Presley playing a penniless fisherman who dreams of someday owning his very own boat. Although Hd technology didn't exist back in the day, this movie had more to it, then overwhelming extra effects or great cinematography. It had Elvis.
Beach Party: Here's another superior that you're bound to find on one of your satellite Tv superior movie channels. It stars, yup, you guessed it, the one and only Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. This was the first of seven Beach Party films from American Internation Pictures. All the Beach Party movies in the series starred a bunch of young kids having fun sans parents or teachers, on the beach. In the movie, Professor Robert Sutwell is privately studying these wild Southern Californian teenagers, when one of those teenagers falls in love with him.
