California Dreaming (1978)

The American dream is nowhere more alluring than upon the sandy, bikini-cluttered beaches of Southern California. If all nocturnal, neurological entertainment shared the high-beam highlights of California Dreaming (1978), waking up would be harder to do. In the film, T.T (Dennis Christopher) is a kind of morbid dude from Chicago, who is so bummed out about his brother's death that he decides to do what him and his bro always said they would one day: ditch the Windy City for Cali. He ends up in Avila Beach, where he spends his days hanging out with the middle aged ex-Olympic swimmer turned beachside bar owner Duke (Seymour Cassell), and his nights lusting after Duke's dimepiece daughter Corky (Glynnis O'Connor). But this isn't one of those old beach bingo movies, this one's a depressing deconstruction of the genre from Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) director John Hancock. So, instead of Duke being a cool dude, he's kind of a loser who lies about what year he represented the USA in the Olympics, to hide how old he is. And rather than surfing being all riding the waves and wowing the babes, this one shows some gnarly wipeouts leading to broken bones. Behind the scenes was just as much of a downer, with Avila Beach ending up losing a ton of their beachfront thanks to a petroleum leak, and John Hancock claiming that his job as a director was made much harder because Tanya Roberts was screwing so many of the cast's members before attempting to seduce him, too. Tanya's tatas might have been seen by every dude behind the scenes, but in the movie she's just one of a bunch of bubbly bikini babes. The only woman willing to show any real skin is Glynnis O'Connor, who not only jiggles in her bathing suit and bra, but flashes her funbags while hopping in the shower! No wonder T.T. is so obsessed with her titties! We wish all the California girls were willing to show the girls like Glynnis! The leaves might be brown and the sky might be grey, but your balls definitely won't be blue watching California Dreaming!