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Exchange Lifeguards
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Wikipedia article
'Exchange Lifeguards' (American title: 'Wet and Wild Summer!') is a 1992 Australian-American comedy film[https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117902087?refcatid=31&printerfriendly=true 'Exchange Lifeguards' review at 'Variety']. Retrieved 9 November 2012 directed by Maurice Murphy and starring Christopher Atkins, Julian McMahon and Elliott Gould.
Plot
A property developer wants to take over an Australian beach for a high rise resort. He sends his son to Australia to check out the situation, posing as an exchange lifeguard. He falls in love with a woman who owns the land his father needs for the development and finds himself sympathising with the locals.
Cast
*Christopher Atkins as Bobby McCain
*Julian McMahon as Mick Dooley
* Rebecca Carlton as Julie Thomas
* Vanessa Steele as Charlene
*Elliott Gould as Mike McCain
*Richard Carter as Al Eastman
* Amanda Newman-Phillips as Kylie
* Christopher Pate as Richard Gray
* Lois Larimore as Donna McCain
* Brian M. Logan as Terry
*Mark Hembrow as Max
* Peter Gow as Tishi
* Anthony Lawrence as Clint Eastman
* Ann Brisk as Annie McCain
* Rick Hochman as himself
Production
Avalon says that sales agent Dick Bateman suggested he write and produce a film set around the beach and lifeguards, with humour and a romance. Bateman said he would buy all rights for $1.5 million. Avalon wrote a script Gary Hamilton of Beyond agreed to help finance if Avalon could get Elliott Gould and Chris Atkins to star; Avalon succeeded in doing this and the film was made for $1.6 million.
Reception
In her review of the film Marsha Porter describes the film as a "vulgar Aussie version of Frankie-and-Annette beach movies" and as "sexist, badly acted, and buffoonish".
See also
*Cinema of Australia
References
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