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Overboard (1978)
Overboard: I have it (or most of it)!
A well-acted and directed story with wonderfully subtle dialog. Not often rebroadcast probably because the two main characters are both at an age outside the demographic. Of course Angie Dickinson looks awesome in a bikini. She plays the insecure and repressed wife of a highly successful lawyer (Cliff Robertson). After he decides to chuck it all and sail the world with her on a sail boat, they both emerge from their shells. But, while he can only focus on his new acquisition (the boat) she begins to explore her boundaries with the help of a young man at the port of Tahiti. Spoiler!! One huge error: through most of the film Ms. Dickinson is strapped in a life-jacket. But at the end the jacket disappears! I videotaped all but the very beginning of this film in 1992. While still watchable the overall quality has suffered. I was going to tape over it but will hold off for a little while.
Rendezvous Hotel (1979)
People in bathing suits looking good, that's it!
Small hotel (with big pool area for the bimbos to frolic)run by a highly caffeinated inept staff. Mostly low-level attempts at comedy aided by laugh-track with one dramatic though predictable sub-plot about a depressed actress who must have just worked in a film like this. Starring Dan Daily who recycles his "I Dream of Gennie" character. I saw this film years ago & all I remembered were the bikinis and the lukewarm feminist statement. Seeing it again recently was unbearable. Sorry I can't say which actor played what role because the opening credits don't list them. The closing credits list only the minor actors and their roles. But I doubt if any of them would include Rendezvous Hotel in their resumes. Remove the bathing suit scenes, add a space alien & this dreck could be a "Science Theatre 2000" torture device.