Back to the Beach

1987 92 min ★ 5.9 Comedy, Music

Cowabunga! The surfing '60s ride into the new wave as Frankie and Annette star in this hip update of their old-time, good-time beach movies. With special appearances by Bob Denver, Tony Dow, Pee-Wee Herman, Jerry Mathers and other familiar faces. Frankie and Annette grow up and have kids in the midwest. They return to LA to visit their daughter who is shacked up with her boyfriend and tries to hide the fact. They begin to have marriage problems when Frankie runs into Connie, who has erected a shrine to him in her night club. Their punk son has joined up with the local surf toughs, and things all come to a head when the toughs challenge the good guys to a surfing duel

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Cast

Frankie Avalon

Annette's Husband

Annette Funicello

Annette

Lori Loughlin

Sandi

Tommy Hinkley

Michael

Demian Slade

Bobby

Joe Holland

Zed

John Calvin

Troy

David Bowe

Mountain

Laura Lanoil

Robin

Connie Stevens

Connie

Details

Director

Lyndall Hobbs

Screenplay

Peter Krikes

Tagline

"All killer...no filler!!"

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Production

Paramount Pictures

Reviews

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Wuchak

August 21, 2023

★ 5/10

**_Revisiting those zany beach party flicks from the mid-60s_** Frankie & Annette are now married and living in Ohio. Frankie’s a workaholic business owner and neglecting Annette, so they decide to fly out to SoCal to visit their daughter and old haunts on their way to Hawaii. “Back to the Beach” (1987) pays homage to those dozen AIP ‘beach party films’ that were released from 1963-196...