46 reviews
Comedy/Music
1h 32m
1987
Cowabunga! The surfing '60s ride into the new wave as Frankie and Annette star in this hip update of their old-time, good-time beach movies. With special appearances by Bob Denver,...

Cowabunga! The surfing '60s ride into the new wave as Frankie and Annette star in this hip update of their old-time, good-time beach movies. With special appearances by Bob Denver, Tony Dow, Pee-Wee Herman, Jerry Mathers and other familiar faces. Frankie and Annette grow up and have kids in the midwest. They return to LA to visit their daughter who is shacked up with her boyfriend and tries to hide the fact. They begin to have marriage problems when Frankie runs into Connie, who has erected a shrine to him in her night club. Their punk son has joined up with the local surf toughs, and things all come to a head when the toughs challenge the good guys to a surfing duel
- DirectorLyndall Hobbs
- Release7 August 1987
- Genre
- Duration1h 32m
- Budget?
- Revenue?
- Rate46 reviews
- Productions
Paramount Pictures
Cast

Frankie Avalon
Annette's Husband

Annette Funicello
Annette

Lori Loughlin
Sandi

Tommy Hinkley
Michael

Demian Slade
Bobby

John Calvin
Troy

David Bowe
Mountain

Connie Stevens
Connie

Don Adams
Harbor Master

Barbara Billingsley
Announcer

Edd Byrnes
Valet

Bob Denver
Bartender

Tony Dow
Judge #1

Alan Hale Jr.
Bartender’s Buddy

Jerry Mathers
Judge #2

Paul Reubens
Pee-Wee Herman

Linda Carol
Bridgette

Todd Bryant
Webby

Rodney Bingenheimer
Self

Dick Dale
Self

Stevie Ray Vaughan
Self

Rick Avery
Surfers & Punks

Noon Orsatti
Surfers & Punks

Randell Dennis Widner
Surfers & Punks

O. J. Simpson
Man At Airport (uncredited)
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