Pleasure Beach (1983)
Lifeguards together... and the heat is on!
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上映時間 : 1時間 20分
演出 : Arthur J. Bressan, Jr.
シノプシス
Pleasure Beach is the story of two lifeguards, one gay, one straight. Their friendship is platonic, though Todd, the gay one, wishes it were not.
Two teenage girls discover that mermaids really do exist after a violent storm washes one ashore. The mermaid, a sassy creature named Aquamarine, is determined to prove to her father that real love exists, and enlists the girls' help in winning the heart of a handsome lifeguard.
兄が仕事で留守の間、美しい妻ラウラの護衛を頼まれた少年サンドロ。その日から、どこに行くにもラウラから離れないようになった彼は、友達と遊べる時間が極端に減ってしまい、彼に想いを寄せるロージーも寂しそうにしている。それを見たラウラは、サンドロに恋の手ほどきを始める。しかし、サンドロにはロージーよりグラマーで美しいラウラの方がはるかに魅力的に映り、彼女への恋心を募らせてしまうのだった。
水難救助隊「ベイウォッチ」を率いるミッチ・ブキャナンは、元オリンピックメダリストの生意気な新人マットに手を焼いていた。ある日、小型船が炎上しているとの情報が入り救出に向かった一同は、船内で不審な遺体を発見する。乗船者が覚醒剤を所持していたことから、犯罪組織の関わりを疑うミッチらは、クラブオーナーのヴィクトリアのパーティーへの潜入捜査に向かう。ビーチの平和を取り戻すため、ライフガードたちの壮絶バトルが始まる。
コニーアイランドの遊園地内にあるレストランで働いている元女優のジニーは、再婚同士で結ばれた回転木馬操縦係の夫・ハンプティと、ジニーの連れ子である息子のリッチーと3人で、観覧車の見える安い部屋で暮らしている。しかし、ハンプティとの平凡な毎日に失望しているジニーは夫に隠れて、海岸で監視員のアルバイトをしながら劇作家を目指している若い男ミッキーと不倫していた。ミッキーとの未来に夢を見ていたジニーだったが、ギャングと駆け落ちして音信不通になっていたハンプティの娘キャロライナの出現により、すべてが大きく狂い出していく。
An underwater earthquake generates a tsunami that strikes Malibu, bringing a hunting pack of prehistoric-looking goblin sharks to the surface. Although the beach is evacuated before the big wave strikes, a group of lifeguards and a crew of construction workers are stranded in the high water and have to fight the sharks to get to dry land.
Feeling pressured to become more sexually experienced before she goes to college, Brandy Klark makes a list of things to accomplish before hitting campus in the fall.
A former valedictorian quits her reporter job in New York and returns to the place she last felt happy: her childhood home in Connecticut. She gets work as a lifeguard and starts a dangerous relationship with a troubled teenager.
Eve is a catastrophe—low on self-esteem but high on fantasy, especially when it comes to music. Over the course of one Glasgow summer, she meets two similarly rootless souls: posh Cass and fastidious James, and together they form a group.
Pals Danny and Frank spend the summer after high school working as lifeguards while figuring out their future.
Rick is a Los Angeles County lifeguard who is in his thirties. At his 15-year high school reunion, he sees his old girlfriend who is now a divorced mother. After falling in love with her, Rick considers changing his career and lifestyle.
Elena is a woman of a certain age, living in a chic Moscow apartment with her wealthy businessman husband Vladimir. While Vladimir is estranged from his daughter, he does not mask his contempt for Elena's own child, who seems to be in constant need of financial assistance. When Vladimir suddenly falls ill and his volatile, nihilistic daughter comes back into the picture, Elena must hatch a plan for her own survival.
A socially awkward, environmentally-conscious teenager named AJ is dragged to a coastal holiday park by her painfully 'normal' family, where she becomes unexpectedly captivated by a chlorine smelling, sun-loving lifeguard named Isla.
Len is a Surf Lifesaving champion, a legend in the cloistered surf club just like his father. When the younger, faster, and fitter Phil arrives at the club, Len’s legendary status starts to crumble. Then Len sees Phil arriving in the company of another man. Phil is gay.
A determined teenage boy struggles to find acceptance within the Jr. Lifeguards of Hermosa Beach while juggling relationships and challenges in the summer of 1986.
The director of a failing summer camp decides to invite campers from ten years ago for a free weekend event, hoping that he can trick them into fixing up the place and also get their families to provide them some financial support. The boys and girls return to the camp and play pranks on each other and try to score with the other campers and the staff.
This is a combination coming out and first love story. The swimmer and diver Lucard is interested in attractive Martin. The film follows the characters' coming out with all its difficulties, the bitter-sweet pleasures of first love and the dreadful moment when one comes down to reality and realizes that one's beloved friend has a hard way to go yet. The positive message the film tries to transmit is the somewhat common motto "Live each day of your life as if it were your last."
A lifeguard gets in over his head when he meets a mobster and his beautiful wife.
America's only missing nuclear weapon is leaking radioactive material into the ocean just off the coast of Tybee Island, GA. The trifling existence of a hapless cast is disrupted by a vicious force of nature that shows no mercy.
During the heat wave, swimmers flock to a municipal pool. Rain or shine, as the days pass the place takes on a life of its own, and the lifeguards, while immature at times, shoulder considerable responsibilities.
A lifeguard at Lake Müggel has his hand bitten off and the marks indicate a shark attack. The lake is closed to the public by extending a local festival indefinitely while the city council thinks of what can be done to remove the shark. The public becomes restless having their lake closed for so long and come up with a plan to drive the shark from the lake with large quantities of beer.