Taking Care of Business (1990), Twilight (1998), Little Monsters (1989), Wild Child (2008), Don't Make Waves (1967), Catch and Release (2006), Bachelor Flat (1961), Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Malibu, Calif. movies.
Storyline: Jimmy Dworski(Jim Belushi) is a criminal serving the last 48 hours of a jail sentence. He wins a couple of baseball tickets by calling a radio quiz show. With help of other inmates, he escapes to go watch the game. When by chance he finds the Filofax of executive Spencer Barns(Charles Grodin) who loses it while traveling on a business weekend. Jimmy finds cash, credit cards and the key to a big mansion. He jumps on the opportunity and starts posing as Barns. While the real Barnes is trying to find his Filofax he gets in all sorts of trouble. How will things turn out when the two finally meet?—Sami Al-Taher <staher2000@yahoo.com>
Plot Keywords: con artist, convict, businessman, daughter, lighthearted, amusing, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Retired ex-cop and private detective Harry Ross (Paul Newman), who lives with rich actor Jack Ames (Gene Hackman), who is dying from cancer and his actress wife Catherine (Susan Sarandon) gets mixed up in murder when he is asked to deliver blackmail money. He walks into a twenty-year-old case involving the mysterious disappearance of Catherine's former husband. Raymond Hope (James Garner) is another ex-cop who also does occasional errands for the couple.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Plot Keywords: private detective, movie star, friend, daughter, police officer, chauffeur, uneasy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A child meets the monster that lives under his bed. He even becomes one of his best friends. Soon the child discovers a whole new world of fun and games under his bed where pulling pranks on kids and other monsters is the main attraction.—Steve Richer <sricher@sympatico.ca>
Plot Keywords: monster, boy, younger brother, father, bully, friend, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Since Malibu brat Poppy Moore's mom passed away, she has pushed her rich, usually absent dad Gerry shamelessly. When his patience wears out, she's shipped off to her mother's former English boarding school for girls, Abbey Mount. On her first day she makes enemies of most dorm mates, especially dominant lacrosse school captain Harriet, and the school's principal Mrs. Kingsley. Unwilling to accept the strict regime, she decides to misbehave and take the blame for everyone until she's dismissed. The school's only appealing feature for her is Kingsley's dashing son Freddie. When the dream prince transfers his favor from ambitious, uptight Harriet to unruly Poppy, that changes everything.
Plot Keywords: spoiled girl, teen girl, father, headmistress, high-school student, teacher, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: New York tourist Tony Curtis falls asleep on a Southern California beach on his first night in the West and wakes up to The New Phantasmagoria--catamarans, surfers (including a dog), bodybuilders, acrobats, motorcycle chicken races, a nut fishing in the shallows . . . and Sharon Tate as a skydiver named Malibu who gives Curtis the rapture of artificial respiration when he is conked on the head by a flying surfboard. This is the '60s American Dream: youth and beauty and money and sex in Southern California. Go west, all men.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: new yorker, beautiful woman, free spirit, surfer, boyfriend, relaxing, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After the sudden death of her fiancé, Gray Wheeler finds comfort in the company of his friends: lighthearted and comic Sam, hyper-responsible Dennis, and, oddly enough, his old childhood buddy Fritz, an irresponsible playboy whom she'd previously pegged as one of the least reliable people in the world. As secrets about her supposedly perfect fiancé emerge, Gray comes to see new sides of the man she thought she knew, and at the same time, finds herself drawn to the last man she ever expected to fall for.
Plot Keywords: young woman, massage therapist, fiancé, son, best friend, mother, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Anthropology Professor Bruce Patterson (Terry Thomas) has the natural British charm that allures women automatically. When his fiancée Helen Bushmill (Celeste Holm) is abroad for an extended time, he has to fight the neighborhood ladies and his students away. Helen has failed to tell him that she has a seventeen year old daughter Libby (Tuesday Weld) who shows up at her mother's home unaware that she in engaged. Bruce's neighbor Mike (Richard Beymer) and his mischievous dachshund also get mixed up in the all the shenanigans happening around the "bachelor flat."—Richard Jones <rjo339@swbell.net>
Plot Keywords: professor, fiancée, daughter, neighbor, student, airy, playful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Deuce Bigalow is a less than attractive, down on his luck aquarium cleaner. One day he runs into a male gigolo who asks him to look after his precious fish while he is away on business. However, he wrecks the house and needs quick money to repair it. The only way he can make it is to become a gigolo himself, taking on an unusual mix of female clients. He encounters a couple of problems, though. He falls in love with one of his unusual clients, and a sleazy police officer his hot on his trail.
Plot Keywords: gigolo, client, lonely woman, police officer, pimp, madcap, playful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Julie, a wealthy contessa managed by S.Z. Matts, wants muscle-man Flex Martin, trained by Jack Fanny, for her own - until she meets Frankie. Frankie's girl Dee Dee gets rightfully jealous and plans to avenge the Frankie-stealing contessa. Mr. Strangdour appears briefly as the king of the strongmen.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: surfer, girlfriend, trainer, bodybuilder, manager, airy, playful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Brad Gluckman or "B-rad" acts like he is from the hood, when he is white and lives in a rich neighborhood in Malibu. He is ruining his fathers election for governor, and he and his crew come up with an idea, to send "B-rad" to the hood to turn him back into a white boy. This movie is filled with laughs and is a great comedy.
Plot Keywords: young man, politician, father, mother, actor, rapper, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Deuce Bigalow ('Rob Schneider') goes to Amsterdam after a little accident including two irritating kids and a bunch of aggressive dolphins. There he meets up with his old friend TJ Hicks ('Eddie Griffin'). But a mysterious killer starts killing some of Amsterdams finest gigolos and TJ is mistaken for the extremely gay murderer. Deuce must enter the gigolo industry again to find the real murderer and clear TJs name.
Plot Keywords: gigolo, friend, inspector, pretty woman, client, hedonistic, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Steve Addington is the world's preeminent surfer - cool, laid back, stoned, shirtless and barefoot, living off endorsements for surfboards and trunks, paid in cash. In Malibu his endorsement contract has been bought by Eddie Zarno, a surfer turned businessman who wants Steve to record his moves for an electronic virtual reality game. Steve just wants to surf. While Zarno tries to change Steve's mind, the Pacific goes calm - there are no waves for days on end. Steve's attracted to Danni, recently fired by Zarno, but the lack of surfing drains him. Plus, he's low on dough. Will he sign with Zarno, get paid, and lose his self-respect?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: surfer, love interest, businessman, beach bum, mentor, manager, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A washed out former star in need of money has a get rich plan...start a volleyball team whose players consist of group of beautiful athletic strippers.
Plot Keywords: con artist, friend, stripper, chauffeur, athlete, beautiful woman, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Students encounter a haunted shark tooth.
Plot Keywords: student, marine biologist, young man, young woman, shark, friend, amusing ...
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