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Summary: College Soap Opera
Review: One of those college-kids-on-spring-break movies. I believe it was one of the first in this genre. Wants to be everything: a beach movie, a comedy, a musical, a soap opera. Worth it to hear Connie Francis.
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Summary: it's really fun and just a feel good chic movie
Review: Sometimes you just feel like getting away from this time this era. This a fun way to do it. An interesting movie with some good plot lines that are still relevent today.
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Summary: The sixties begin.
Review: Suntans, first love, jazz, date rape. And all in one film. "Where the Boys Are" ushered in the 60's, perhaps unwittingly, with its portrayal of half a dozen teens on Spring Break and their new attitudes about sex, life, and sex. Dolores Hart (now a Mother Superior in real life) plays a privileged Midwestern girl with very progressive ideas about interpersonal relations, while Yvette Mimieux's tragic character learns the hard way the lessons of promiscuity, at least according to Hollywood at the time. A very enjoyable film, and a nostalgic final glance back at the fading 1950's, as a new generation was about to make its mark on the social mores of Spring Break and the new world of the 60's.
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Summary: Connie's tour de force
Review: The best beach flick of the 60's. Since watching this movie all of the starring women - Paula Prentiss, Dolores Hart, Yvette Mimieux - have come on my underrated actors list, all before I realize the connection. I also became a fan of Connie Francis, something I thought would never happen. A year later I admitted to owning over 10 records of her to my older sister. She told me to keep that to myself. It more or less is Connie's movie but Paula almost steals it. (This was her debut too! She already had a presence.) Jim Hutton (Paula's boy in the movie) and her have great chemistry together. Apparently they went on to make other movies together which I shall see. The plot, what there is, four girls go to the beach where they all meet boys, but Yvette's ends in disaster. The movie also has the most sexist quote ever. It's on imdb but I won't quote it here because I don't want to give it away. Connie also did another movie with some of the cast here called Looking for Love. Someone please put it on video.
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Summary: Classic joy
Review: The strangest part of this film was the obvious decision that Connie Francis was not beautiful enough to play a romantic dramatic lead. So they cast her as sort of a Nancy Walker type comedienne, supposedly not attractive enough to be taken seriously but just perfect for comic relief. But watching the film that makes no sense. First, Francis steals every scene she's in. Second, she is absolutely darling. Third, as Paula Prentiss herself has said, it's hard to swallow Connie as someone who couldn't get a date, or a handsome date, since what guy could resist such a cute, right-there, sparkling, personable girl. This odd casting aside, the film has stood the test of time, is still fresh, fun, beguiling, tuneful and without one wasted moment. All the leading ladies are wonderful and went onto interesting careers (one as a nun). The leading guys did all right too. This made a ton of moolah for a very pleased M-G-M Pictures, found a big college audience, and is still refreshing entertainment.
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Summary: The ultimate spring break movie!
Review: There is none better. I must watch this at least 2x a yr. The story is wonderful, the girls & guys are great & how nice to watch a movie & not worry about foul language & in your face sex! You don't have to see the details to know what may have happened. It is without a doubt my favorite movie. I've been waiting for it to come to DVD. & don't miss The trouble w/ Angels & Where Angels go trouble follows! After watching these I wanted to go to an all girl school soooo bad!
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Summary: A Cautionary Tale
Review: This is a fun movie, but it also touches on some very adult topics such as rape and suicide. It's NOT for children, and it's not beach blanket bingo! If you have teenage girls or boys, this is probably good viewing for them and may even act as a springboard for family discussions about the dangers of dating and love.
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Summary: Fun nostalgia with a real slant
Review: This is one of those movies you might happen uponon a lazy sunday flipping through TV channels, which is how I first discovered it. I thought it would be some silly teenage romp, but found it to be much more. While is is great to see the fashion, slang and ideas of the era, "Where the Boys Are" shows us four different college girls who experence spring break very differently. As each girl meets and tries to snag her dream-boy, we're taken along on the courtship and fun. The brooding George Hamilton and the kooky Bill Hutton keep the girls om their toes. The sad story line of Yvette Mimeux as the pretty girl who doesn't know her worth and suffers because of it is a surprising and touching addition. All in all, I give it a 4-star rating amd suggest it for slumber parties, sick days and rainy days when this glimpse into the sunny 60s Ft. Lauderdale. A lot of fun!
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Summary: George Hamilton please.
Review: This movie was one of the overlooked beach party movies. It has taken the spring vacation and showed both sides. The fun and the horror of meeting too many men too fast.Yes love will find it's way. When it comes to seeing one of the best looking men in that time it was George Hamilton. And he plays one of the sexy, kind and sweet men that you really want to dream of and meet. The movie has alot of fun in it and it also was very real.
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Summary: Not Beach Blanket Bingo
Review: Where The Boys Are is really the grandaddy of all Beach Flicks. Being made in 1960 it was totally different from the later Beach Movies the early 60's. For one thing it had a message about drinking, sex etc. which I find really incredible for the Genre, but again this movie made its own rules. I did not notice until a few years ago that this movie uses Jazz from the fifties instead of the Surf music from the later Gidget, Frankie and Annette movies of the 60's which is what this makes it a totally different beast from the Surf flicks of a few years later that were lightweight teen angst. This flick turned me on to the romance of Spring break as a teen but when you watch it later you pick up the romantic fable of post WW2 America. It may be a forerunner of 60's beach flicks but it is way above them.A final note on the fine- fine cast that went on to other movie and music roles except for the actress who fell for George Hamilton who I have read went out and became a Nun.
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