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      Where the Boys Are

      Released Dec 28, 1960 1h 39m Comedy List
      88% 8 Reviews Tomatometer 70% 1,000+ Ratings Audience Score Beautiful Midwestern college girls Angie (Connie Francis), Melanie (Yvette Mimieux), Tuggle (Paula Prentiss) and Merritt (Dolores Hart) take off to Florida for spring break. On their search for romance and adventure, Merritt falls for the charismatic Ryder Smith (George Hamilton), while Tuggle becomes briefly involved with the somewhat dim TV Thompson (Jim Hutton). Though the young women have plenty of good times, they find that the trip isn't all fun and games. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Jun 01 Buy Now

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      Matt Brunson Film Frenzy The slang is even more outdated than the sexual politics, but all of the performers shine with colorful characterizations, particularly Hart, Prentiss, and Gorshin. Rated: 3/4 Nov 1, 2021 Full Review Raquel Stecher Out of the Past has a lot of heart... fantastic cast Mar 4, 2019 Full Review Renee Schonfeld Common Sense Media 1960s spring break film focuses on drinking and sex. Rated: 3/5 Mar 4, 2015 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Naive, unintentionally campy comedy about four girls, who set to Florida during spring break for some fun; Connie Francis' title song became a huge hit. Rated: B- Aug 12, 2012 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 3/5 Jun 7, 2005 Full Review Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Rated: 3/5 Apr 28, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Marc B A really interesting film (surprisingly so) capturing vintage, postcard-like-Fort Lauderdale and spring break college students, seeking adventures, while tragically caught between the repression of the 1950s and the sexual revolution of the 1960s, but not quite there yet. These characters, especially the women, are left to negotiate a perilous passage towards sexual freedom--the really nostalgic and poignant (almost tragic) aspect of the film is they don't make it to the promised land. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/06/23 Full Review Audience Member It's a classic. It's said in a retro, old-fashioned way, but it still shows the finer qualities of people when confronted by the lower qualities. Especially as it pertains to the young maturing towards adult thinking. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member The best movie song ever sung: the title song! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member What I enjoyed most was how it was a complete contrast of itself. It truly is harmless, yet harmful at the same time due to it's undertones. A fun watch. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member More intelligent than most movies of its kind, imagine an Elvis movie, Beach Party movie, and a teen tragedy got combined into one interesting cult flick. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie is first and foremost a somewhat dippy teen film that you might enjoy for the antics of Spring Break 50+ years ago (and oh how times have changed!). The movie seems surprisingly daring in the beginning when a young woman references the Kinsey report and alludes to premarital sex being natural, but eventually you'll realize the movie is conservative, still more in the 50's than it is in the 60's. It's watered down and feels sanitized, and it was tough to see the college women on Spring Break ridiculously desperate for men, actually believing they're going to find guys who will propose to them on the trip (huh??), and one simply wanting to become a 'baby factory'. In the end, its main theme is the age old clash between men who want sex, and women who want commitment. I suppose that's to be expected from a movie called "Where The Boys Are", and reflective of the times. The most poignant and serious moments come from the character played by Yvette Mimieux, who has been having sex with a guy, thinking he loves her. When she arranges to meet him in a motel, she finds he's sent one of his friends instead, after telling her she's easy - and gets raped. By my count, she tells him "no" 9 times as he advances, all smiles, about to force himself on her. None of it is shown, we just see her despondently walking into traffic, a scene which is ridiculously overplayed. Unfortunately (and outrageously) the moral has nothing to do with the guys who took advantage of her and devastated her - neither of them are seen again, presumably happily traveling north having "gotten some" - it's her ruing meeting a guy in the future who'll find out she's no longer a virgin because of her Spring Break escapades. Sigh, and grrr. And, with the Code being in effect, where evil was not allowed to win - it's clear, that this was not considered rape and not considered evil. What a horrible, horrible message buried within this silly movie. And how opposite it is to the initial premise that women should not have to "wait until marriage". If you can watch it just for the goofiness - like guys picking up and moving a car, and characters jumping in to a giant tank of water in a nightclub and making silly faces - you will probably enjoy it. You have a poor man's Marilyn Monroe (Barbara Nichols), poor man's jazz (Frank Gorshin of Riddler fame, sporting Coke bottle glasses), and a dapper George Hamilton in a black polo shirt on the beach. You have very well dressed guys and girls on the beach and on dates. You have Connie Frances making her debut and singing. I have to say, it held my interest, but I can't help but feel it could have been so much better if it had been more serious in one of its directions instead of lukewarm in all, and been a little more ahead of its time. It's certainly retrograde by today's standards. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis Beautiful Midwestern college girls Angie (Connie Francis), Melanie (Yvette Mimieux), Tuggle (Paula Prentiss) and Merritt (Dolores Hart) take off to Florida for spring break. On their search for romance and adventure, Merritt falls for the charismatic Ryder Smith (George Hamilton), while Tuggle becomes briefly involved with the somewhat dim TV Thompson (Jim Hutton). Though the young women have plenty of good times, they find that the trip isn't all fun and games.
      Director
      Henry Levin
      Screenwriter
      Glendon Swarthout, George Wells
      Distributor
      Warner Home Vídeo, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
      Production Co
      Metro Goldwyn Mayer
      Genre
      Comedy
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Dec 28, 1960, Original
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Dec 30, 2012
      Runtime
      1h 39m
      Sound Mix
      Magnetic Stereo 6 Track
      Aspect Ratio
      35mm, Scope (2.35:1)
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