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Released: 2004-01-06 Rating:  More Details: Where the Boys Are Where the Boys Are @Amazon Where the Boys Are @aStore |
Description
A group of Midwest girls head down to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida for spring break.
The movie that put the Break into Spring, Where the Boys Are inspired thousands of college kids to seek sun, surf, and even s-e-x on the beaches of Florida. A bevy of co-eds (including foxy Yvette Mimieux and delightful Paula Prentiss, in her film debut) make for Fort Lauderdale, finding fun but also quite a bit of heavy-breathing drama. It's a little like a dressier, glossed-up version of the Problems with Today's Youth movies that were filling up the drive-ins of the era. The movie's actually pretty frank for 1960, although these days the lightweight stuff with Prentiss and Jim Hutton holds up best. There's also Connie Francis, who plays one of the college girls and croons the great title tune (which belongs on anybody's mix tape of classic teen-beach music). The film was remade, with vague Orwellian overtones, as Where the Boys Are 84, a truly dismal effort. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews:
great times not forgotton
Oh, How do we wish those times were here now?? This is a wonderful film that I love to watch over and over. All the cast are so good and so funny. It's one of the classic film's of all times. All teenagers at that time wanted to be like those four girls. Nothng could be better then going to the beach and finding lots of fun and lots of cute boys. It sure brings back alot of good times for me and I know it does for you. I say enjoy this film, for they don't make them like they used to !!!!
"Experience! That's what separates the girls from the Girl Scouts" 
Four New England co-eds swap the winter chill for the warm sands of Fort Lauderdale in the landmark 1960 spring break favourite, WHERE THE BOYS ARE. Petite brunette pop singer Connie Francis makes her film debut, with a surprising, literate screenplay crafted from the novel by Glendon Swarthout.
With her grades falling by the wayside and the winter seriously affecting her morale, Merritt Andrews (Dolores Hart) decides the perfect mid-term escape is a holiday in Fort Lauderdale with her three best gal-pals: Melanie (Yvette Mimieux), Tuggle (Paula Prentiss) and Angie (Connie Francis). The boys are beckoning, the water is warm and the "dialectic jazz" is hot! It's going to be a spring break to remember...
What sets this film apart from the sunny antics of the "Gidget"'s and "Beach Party"'s is the way it candidly deals with the subject of girls having sexual relationships outside of marriage. Dolores Hart's Merritt is torn over falling in love with handsome college stud Ryder (George Hamilton--long before he became a walking caricature) or remaining a "good girl". Yvette Mimieux's Melanie, on the other hand, falls into a dangerous mixture of rowdy college boys and alcohol. Comedy relief comes in Tuggle's hilarious pairing with TV (Jim Hutton), a lanky wisecracker who is "queer for hats".
Connie Francis sings "Where the Boys Are" and "Turn on the Sunshine". The supporting cast includes Frank Gorshin, Barbara Nichols and Chill Wills. Warner's DVD comes stacked with some recent interviews with Ms Prentiss and Ms Francis, an audio commentary with Prentiss, footage from the movie's premiere, and the trailer.
The sixties begin.
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.
They don't make them like this anymore.
This movie is packed with great acting great period humor. This will have you laughing from the beginning and ready to cry at the end. A great comedy they weave a very important message regarding one of the most controversial issues of that day - premarital sex and date rape. With great performances from Dolores Hart, George Hamilton, Yvette Mimieux and a young Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss this movie keeps your attention. Jim Hutton is joined by Frank Gorshin to provide great comedy that will guarentee several belly laughs. As if all of this wasn't enough, you get a great treat to see the fabulous Connie Francis sing. This one is definitely a 5 star must own.
Where the Boys are
I was pleased with how quick I received the movie. Movie in great shape.
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