Summer Fantasy

10/15/2026

***Julianne Phillips plays a high school grad who becomes a lifeguard*** This comes in the tradition of Sam Elliott's "Lifeguard" from eight years prior and was the precursor to the Baywatch tv series five years later. While it’s sometimes listed as a comedy, it’s not. It’s a drama with the milieu of the beaches of Southern California. The original "Gidget" movie from 1959 with Sandra Dee started this subgenre, keeping in mind that it was a beach drama with moving depth and not zany at all, like the plethora of Beach Party flicks that followed featuring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. Ted Shackelford plays the Lifeguard Chief in a role similar to Elliott’s character in the aforementioned movie. The difference is, he’s not dumb enough to get involved with a too-young female. Act