Zuma Beach

12/3/2025

**_A day at the beach in SoCal in the late ’70s_** Suzanne Somers was 30 years-old playing a fading rock singer who goes to a beach in Malibu to find inspiration amidst the youths, mostly high school kids. It’s a fun drama that addresses some heavy things amidst the frolics rather than a goofy beach party flick, like those from the ’60s. Speaking of which, people forget that the originator of the "beach party film" genre was 1959's "Gidget" (the movie with Sandra Dee, not the TV series with Sally Field), which was a beach drama with moving depth and not zany at all. So, this is more along the lines of the 1959 version of “Gidget,” just mixed with the ’70’s vibe of Sam Elliott’s “Lifeguard” from 1976. It’s basically a TV version of “California Dreaming,” which debuted seven months lat