Club Med (1986) (TV)

User Rating:

4.6/10   

Director:

Bob Giraldi

Writers:

Jeff Freilich (writer)
Judith Paige Mitchell (writer)

Release Date:

19 January 1986 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

O'Shea is the easy going head honcho at Club Med. After years apart, he finally runs into his ex-wife Kate...

Cast

Jack Scalia	...	O'Shea
Linda Hamilton	...	Kate
Patrick Macnee	...	Gilbert Anthony Paige
Janis Lee Burns	...	Jody
Jeff Kaake	...	Bart
Traci Lind	...	Simone LaFontanne
Bill Maher	...	Rick
Adam Mills	...	Gypsy
Sinbad	...	Himself
Timothy Williams	...	Danny
Allison Argo	...	Allison
Lorraine Chanel
Jason Cook
William Coss
John P. Nadeau

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Filming Locations:

Mexico City, México D.F., Mexico

Company:

Lorimar Telepictures

I was there, literally!

Upon arriving at my second Club Med vacation I was told that we were going to be "lucky" enough to have a film company at work around the village during the next week or so. This seemed kind of cool at first, but got old quickly. Often the quickest and most convenient ways to travel from one place to another were blocked by the crew. They took over a bar. If you wanted to watch the filming (and be a background person) you had to stay for hours and hours. After a few days the only way the producers could get anyone to be in the movie was to provide free booze *and* prizes. At the time Jack Scalia was the biggest name in the movie but many of us remembered Patrick McNee and it was fun to see him. I was told that Linda Hamilton was a soap opera actress. Little did I know that she would be in one of my favorite movies. Anyway, I'm in the movie twice (if you don't blink) and at this point I'm glad the crew was there 'cause I pull the movie out once every few years and take a brief look at some of it -- and me all liquored up singing "Hands Up." P.S. A few years later I went back to the same Club Med and one of the people riding on the bus from the airport to the hotel had seen this movie and was telling us how he knew everything about this Club Med; that soon we were going to go on a boat ride to the Village (as they had done in the movie). I tried to tell him that was just made up for the movie; the bus was going to take us to the front of the Club Med building, but he went on about the boat... until the bus pulled up to the front of the hotel.