Glynnis O'Connor in California Dreaming (1978)

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The American dream is nowhere more alluring than upon the sandy, bikini-cluttered beaches of Southern California. If all nocturnal entertainments shared the high-beam highlights of California Dreaming (1978), waking up would be harder to do. Even a morbid dude from Chicago, on an errand for his deceased brother, can wash up upon the Malibu shore and partake of the manifold attractions he encounters there. He may need to pinch himself to be sure that the beach bunny hopping into his lonely bed is real, and in the end he may decide that the colder reality he has left back home suits him better than the sun-drenched West Coast fantasy he has stumbled into, but his experience shouldn’t stop the rest of us from shutting our eyes and doing a little more California Dreaming.