Gidget's Summer Reunion
| Gidget's Summer Reunion | |
|---|---|
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| Written by | Robert Blees George Zateslo |
| Directed by | Bruce Bilson |
| Starring | Caryn Richman Dean Butler |
| Theme music composer | George Tipton |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Producers | Harry Ackerman Carole Coates Ralph Riskin |
| Editor | Art Stafford |
| Running time | 98 min. |
| Original release | |
| Release | June 1, 1985 |
Gidget's Summer Reunion is a 1985 American made-for-television comedy film produced by Columbia Pictures Television which aired in syndication on June 1, 1985. It was written by Robert Blees and George Zateslo, directed by Bruce Bilson and starred Caryn Richman as Gidget.
Plot
Now in their late twenties and married, Gidget and Jeff live in Santa Monica, Jeff working as an architect and Gidget as a travel agent. They have no children of their own, but are looking after Gidget's niece Kim while Anne and John (Kim's parents) are in Europe.
Their marriage is troubled, in part because they are becoming workaholics, leaving themselves too little quality time.
Gidget decides to throw Jeff a surprise thirtieth birthday party including a reunion of their old surfing friends, but this is threatened when the illness of her employee Johnny Soon means that she must fill in, coordinating a tour in Hawaii. Meanwhile, Jeff is fending off romantic advances from Anne Bedford, his beautiful and libidinous boss.
Kim at fifteen and a half years old is much as Gidget was at that age. She wants to learn how to surf and gets in over her head when she sneaks out of the house to see Mickey, a suave, self-serving beach bum behind the back of Albert, her nerdy boyfriend.
In the end, Johnny Soon's quick recovery brings Gidget home in the nick of time to save her marriage and rescue Kim from the tight spot she has gotten herself into.
Cast
- Caryn Richman as Francine "Gidget" Griffin
- Dean Butler as Jeff "Moondoggie" Griffin
- Allison Barron as Kim
- Don Stroud as The Great Kahoona
- Anne Lockhart as Larue Powell
- Vincent Van Patten as Mickey
- Johnny Yune as Johnny Soon
- David Knell as Albert Winslow
- Ben Murphy as Ron Levering
- Mary Frann as Anne Bedford
- William Schallert as Russ Lawrence
- Will Nye as Slim
- Steven Kavner as Malibu Mac
- Michael Pniewski as Scooter Boy (as Michael Pniewski)
- Peter Ackerman as Darryl
- Brad Zutaut as Kirk
- Buck Young as Bob
- Gillian Dobb as Mary Jane
- George Zateslo as Hot Dog
- Bill Edwards as Harry Schaffer
- Danny Kamekona as George the Chauffeur
- Moe Keale as Bob the Driver
See also
- Gidget (film)
- Gidget Goes Hawaiian
- Gidget Goes to Rome
- Gidget (TV series)
- Gidget Grows Up
- List of television films produced for American Broadcasting Company