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BookPrices.net - Shag
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List Price: $9.98
Our Price: $0.67
Your Save: $ 9.31 ( 93% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Phoebe Cates; Scott Coffey; Bridget Fonda; Annabeth Gish; Page Hannah
Directed By: Zelda Barron
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780792837749
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 0792837746
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: 1998-01-13
Running Time: 96
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1989-07-21
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Service
Comment: This movie was sent in a great timeframe after purchase and I did not have to wait for anything on this item. I would recommend this seller to anyone looking for a great turnaround time.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Summer Movie
Comment: If you can't make it to the beach this summer - check out the Shag. Escapism at it's all time best
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Summary: Fun movie
Comment: This item arrived quickly and in good condition. This is a good-time movie. The music (on the VHS version) is great.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Love it!
Comment: I'm in the middle of replacing my VHS tapes with DVD's and had to replace this one right away. My daughter and I love watching these older movies and I was excited to see the great price for this one.
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Summary: Careful!
Comment: Be careful to get the correct version (the one w/ the characters riding in a car) of the VCR tape so that you get the period music by the original artists. The DVD doesn't have the original artists, either. Also be careful whom you buy from. The copy of the version that I did want (bought separately) had huge amounts of static, & the seller was very rude about it.
At the end, the song that is sung is the old (pre-integration) song of Spartanburg High School. My late sister was killed during her senior year ('66, she died in a car wreck in Nov. of '65)& I hadn't heard that song since. I cried. It was a different song by the time that I was there, '78. Everyone who went to SHS before '70 should have this movie, if only for that.
I enjoyed it very much, especially being as a bit of my hometown of Spartanburg was in it, & of course, we all went to Myrtle Beach in my time as well. You might be interested to know that The Pavillion, featured in the movie, was torn down a few years ago. The land remains vacant. It was well maintained (but the city wanted to have beach-front condos made), but the deal fell through. I will never go there again because of that.
The plot was very true-to-life of the era. Although I was only 4 when the movie was supposed to have taken place, my sister's friends have verified the details for me.
It was also great to see those actors at that point in their careers.
If you love east coast beach music, get it for that alone, but the story was also good. A movie that I'm delighted was made.
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Editorial Reviews:
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What do you get when you mix T-Birds, Bermuda shorts, bubble-flip dos and incredible dancing? You get Shag, The Movie a comic free-for-all (The New York Times) that Variety calls fun and breezy and you'll call a blast! Carson (Phoebe Cates, Fast Times at Ridgemont High) is all set to marry respectable but boring Harley (Tyrone Power, Jr., Cocoon) until her best friends Melaina (Bridget Fonda, Single White Female), Pudge (Annabeth Gish, MysticPizza), and Luanne (Page Hannah, TV's Fame ) whisk her off for a last-fling beach party where all the girls have the time of their lives! A charming bad boy throws Carson's marriage plans intothe spin cycle. His nerdy sidekick whirls Pudge through some dazzling dance steps. Sultry Melaina learns some sexy moves from an Elvis-like teen idol. And even straight-laced Luanne whips off her horn-rimmed glasses and tosses her innocence to the wind!
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