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California Dreaming (1979) -- A nerd from Chicago tries desperately to fit in with the California surfing crowd, blind to the fact that their lives are even more boring and empty that his.

Overview

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5.1/10   250 votes
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Director:
John D. Hancock
Writer:
Ned Wynn (written by)
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Release Date:
April 1979 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama | Romance more
Tagline:
A state somewhere between fantasy and reality.
Plot:
Young T.T. comes from Chicago to spend the summer in California. He slowly becomes "California-ized,"... more | add synopsis
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Glynnis O'Connor ... Corky

Seymour Cassel ... Duke Slusarski

Dorothy Tristan ... Fay
Dennis Christopher ... T.T.
John Calvin ... Rick
Todd Susman ... Jordy Banks

Tanya Roberts ... Stephanie

Alice Playten ... Corrine
Ned Wynn ... Earl Fescue

James Van Patten ... Mike (as Jimmy Van Patten)
Stacey Nelkin ... Marsha
Johnny Fain ... Tenner (as John Fain)
Tom McFadden ... Dan
Tom Rosqui ... George Booke

Marshall Efron ... Ruben
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Additional Details

Runtime:
92 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
Australia:M | USA:R
Company:
Cinema 77 more

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Trivia:
As Earl is driving through town, one of the ads on the side of his car is for the "Old Custom House", an actual restaurant in Avila Beach. more
Goofs:
Continuity: Near the end of the film, items on the windowsill replace themselves after T.T. knocks them off/over with the volleyball. more
Soundtrack:
Everybody's Dancin' more

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3 out of 5 people found the following comment useful.
The ending made my cry, 30 September 2003
3/10
Author: campblood13 from Austin, TX

Seymour Cassel gives a great performance, a tour de force. His acting as supposed washed up beach stud Duke Slusarski will always have a place in my heart. The film is centered around a nerd who just came to the beach in hopes of honoring his dead brother's dreams. What he gets is lame surf hijinks. Guys cheating, guys fighting, and guys getting drunk going to watch surf documentaries with the whole town of LA on a Friday night. Duke takes the nerd in and tries to teach him how playing volleyball is like touching a woman. Next time my woman talks back I will pretend I'm spiking the ball.

Back to Seymour Cassel. The end of the movie turns into a good drama, since the first half of the film really had no point. Duke plays a wonderful game of volleyball, the best he's played in over ten years. The way the scene is shot is beautiful. You can feel the heart this man has for the game and the love of being on the beach. Those five minutes will go down as one of my favorites of all time. 3/10 Bad to Fair, the rest of the movie was lame.

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