Exchange Lifeguards

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Exchange Lifeguards
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Directed by Maurice Murphy
Written by Phillip Avalon
Produced byPhillip Avalon
Starring Christopher Atkins
Julian McMahon
Elliott Gould
Martin Cruden
Cinematography Martin McGrath
Music by John Capek
Release dates
  • June 21, 1992 (June 21, 1992)
(Australia)
  • October 20, 1993 (October 20, 1993)
(United States)
  • January 17, 1999 (January 17, 1999)
(Germany, TV premier)
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1.6 million [1]
Box officeA$3,634 (Australia) [2]
North American movie poster WetAndWildSummerPosterSmall.jpg
North American movie poster

Exchange Lifeguards known in the United States as Wet and Wild Summer!, is a 1992 Australian-American comedy film [3] directed by Maurice Murphy and starring Christopher Atkins, Julian McMahon and Elliott Gould. [4]

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Premise

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

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. [1]

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". [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 Avalon, Phil (2015). From Steel City to Hollywood. New Holland. p. 228.
  2. "Australian Films at the Australian Box Office", Film Victoria Archived 9 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 12 November 2012
  3. Exchange Lifeguards review at Variety. Retrieved 9 November 2012
  4. Robert A. Nowlan, Gwendolyn Wright Nowlan (2001). The Films of the Nineties. McFarland, 2001. ISBN   0786409746.
  5. Mick Martin, Marsha Porter (1996). Video Movie Guide . Ballantine Books, 1996. ISBN   0345406435.