Pals Danny and Frank spend the summer after high school working as lifeguards while figuring out their future.Pals Danny and Frank spend the summer after high school working as lifeguards while figuring out their future.Pals Danny and Frank spend the summer after high school working as lifeguards while figuring out their future.
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- TriviaThe Great Kills Swim Club that they're at in the movie is a real swim club on Staten Island.
- GoofsWhen the NYPD officer gives the Glock handgun to the female party goer (at the pool party) he states, "It's safe, the safety is on." Then proceeds to manually "click" on the safety. Glocks do not have external safety toggle switches of any kind.
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Anthony: Irish kids develop later, okay. They don't think about sex until they're like 25.
Mary Ellen: Wow, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life.
Anthony: It's a biology fact, Mary Ellen, okay. Read a fuckin' book.
Mary Ellen: "Biology fact."
Anthony: Okay look, first it's Hispanic guys, obviously, then the Black guys, then the Italians, then the French, and then the Irish, all right? And then, probably, like the Asians eventually.
Mary Ellen: Oh my God, when you join the Navy their collective IQ is gonna drop like 25 points. You're gonna sink our ships.
Anthony: Hey, if you're love with me, just say you're love with me.
Our main protagonist is the young man who's graduating high school and going on to college at Harvard, while his best friend is staying home with his parents. These two have worked as lifeguards at this really beautiful pool as soon as they were old enough to work and they've been swimming there all of their lives! So this is the last hurrah, and all of the lifeguards collectively being the same age one of the other ones is about to join the Navy, they decide that that closing weekend they were going to have a staff party. However the guy who is the manager is just a despicable human being just awful sexually harassing the guests to the pool, putting a out of order sign on a bathroom stall so he can have his own personal shall we say make out space for only himself. And he is taken the keys to the entire pool and they have to get those keys in order to have the party. So I'm not going to give you any spoilers because I really want you to watch this movie but I'm going to get into the positives and negatives.
The positives are definitely the acting. Everybody was very believable. It was thoroughly enjoyable the actors were very well cast! The script was GREAT! Other than a couple spots where things kind of slowed down, it was VERY well written, and I think most people who grew up in the 80's & 90's could identify with this at least in part! Camera work was great, I could find no flaws! For the negatives, I really can't say, other than a couple slow spots, because it was so thoroughly enjoyable that I didn't see any other negatives! OOOH! I SHOULD mention, this ISN'T family friendly, even though there ARE kids in it! There's A LOT of dirty jokes, sexual situations, and at least 1 topless female that I remember!
So, if you are looking for something to make you laugh, forget your troubles, and the kids aren't around, THIS is the movie for you!!!
- tesswysko
- Apr 13, 2019
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- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1