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Babes, one Bangle, Bikinis. . .how can you loose?
OK, for a start, this movie isn't the turd that some reviewers would have you believe. By that I don't mean to imply that it is a good film, far from it, but it certainly does not stink. Tamar Simon Hoffs wrote this film as a vehicle for her daughter, Bangle rocker Susannah Hoffs. I suppose it was supposed to propell Susannah to movie-stardom; it didn't. <
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>However, all of the major cast members turn in perfomances that are actually quite good given the material they had to work with. Joan Cusack, likely the only person in this film that you could pick out of a line-up, as actually quite good as the film-obsessed Gina. Dedee Pfeiffer, sister to Michelle Pfeiffer, is super-cute as air-head Val. Killer (James Shanta) and C.J. (John Terlesky) are typical surfer dudes. <
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>That brings us to Susannah Hoffs. I was Bangle obsessed when I was in graduate school (yes, I said GRADUATE school). I thought the Bangles were (are, actually) a fine band; sort of what the Beatles might have been if they had been girls. I really wanted to see this film when it first came out but somehow I missed it. So, in 2005, I saw it for the first time. I'll admit freely that if Bangle Susannah had not been in the film I wouldn't have bothered. Can she act? Yes. Is she very good? No. Again, that doesn't mean she stinks! Most actors in most prime time shows are not what I would call great! Could Susannah hold her own on a show like Friends? Sure. <
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>Here's the plot in a nutshell: Molly (Susannah) loves C.J. but C.J. loves to surf. Molly tries to get through to C.J. but C.J. loves to surf. Frustrated, Molly goes after a washed-up '60s rocker from some band called the Rhinos. Surprisingly, the former Rhino has the moral fortitude not to take advantage of young Molly (who is seriously hot, by the way) but she ends up trapped on the balcony of his hotel room when a former lover shows up. <
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>Molly calls Gina and Val for help but they are promptly mistaken for hookers and arrested. They don't look like hookers to me, they won't look like hookers to you, just go with it. Molly manages to escape from the balcony just as the other girls are being loaded into the paddy wagon. Now, Molly must come up with bail money ASAP because tomorrow is graduation day for these Pacifica College seniors.

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The Allnighter
Not a bad little movie. A typical 80s Girl wants Boy, Girl too scared to tell Boy, Girl has wacky last night with College Girlfriends, Girl land in Jail, Girl tells Boy she loves him after she is bailed out of Jail story.

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Proof the 80's sucked.
It's no wonder that neither Tamar Hoffs who wrote, directed and produced this junk NOR her daughter Susanna Hoffs ever made another film again. Sue is now married to film director Jay Roach (Meet the Parents, Austin Powers) and wisely, unlike Madonna, isn't letting her hubbie direct her in anything else. Why? Because the girl can't act to save her life and she knows it. Sue is a great video poser (like Madonna) but is she ever wooden -- even in a silly, no-serious - acting-required romp like this. This film isn't even for Bangles fans since the other three Bangles themselves wanted nothing to do with it, and even Vicki Peterson wondered how this atrocity was "even being made." But it does go to show what happens when you get a hit record. For some reason pop stars believe that hitting the Top Ten automatically qualifies them for starring roles in films. In this case, Sue's mom wanted to be the Orson Welles of her generation. Only because she had a famous daughter, and a forgettable short flick to her name, did she get the chance to do it. You would think the film had a better soundtrack, being that Sue and bandmates did make some good music. But this purposeless film is not even unintentionally funny; it's just stupefyingly dumb! "Molly's" moronic, valedictory speech is appropriate for the fictitious "Pacifica College" (where teachers "recreate Woodstock" as part of the curriculum). Any brains, out there? And how do three penniless college students afford such a gorgeous beachfront house? Except for Joan Cusak's character Gina who displays some occasional caustic wit and seems to be very aware of the idiots she's surrounded with, this flick is a lame -- one wonders if these 5 brainless twits will ever make it in the real world. PS: this mess certainly didn't help Sue's standing in the Bangles who at the time were trying hard to fight the "sex kitten" image the record company imposed on them: the film brought even more media attention onto Sue whose half-naked close-ups was hardly going to help the Bangles be taken seriously female musicians.