Shag | | Cast : | Phoebe Cates, Bridget Fonda | | Director : | Zelda Barron | | Studio : | MGM/UA Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | July 21, 1989 | | DVD Released Date : | May 22, 2001 | | Language : | French (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 02, 2005 | | Summary | Great Girl Movie | Content
 | This is an awesome movie for girls night! I highly recommend it! |
| Rating | | | Date | February 07, 2005 | | Summary | I'm Bewildered! | Content
| Lovely Lovely Lovely movie.....much lovelier if you learn to Shag holding on to Grandma's frig., seems there as been a little to many lessons given out. The bewilderment is my son and I lived here in 84,85,and part of 86. My son was 16y/o and worked at the old roller coaster, and a part of the movie shot there I was sitting on a bench, with a lady and her baby. My son can pretty well nick the point and time where Phoebe Cates is with Buzz on a ride. I do not understand why they are saying the movie was shot in 89. This will drive me crazy!!!! Don't never ever stop watching Shag! |
| Rating | | | Date | January 23, 2005 | | Summary | A Neglected Gem | Content
| "This was our last weekend together, and we didn't feel like going to Ft. Sumter and touring goddamn colonial homes! We wanted to go to the beach! And meet boys! And go to wild parties! And dance!" One of the most overlooked but greatest girl-movies all time, *Shag* is a meticulously crafted period piece that takes a look back at the summer of '63 - a hallowed summer cinematically, supposedly representing an innocent America untouched by the coming traumas of the Sixties. It is the story of four girls who have just graduated from high school who hightail it to Myrtle Beach - the forbidden zone of boys and booze. As they whoop it up, each of them has their eyes opened to a reality that is not part of the world their parents laid out for them. "Y'all, I'm *wild*," Cates' character tells her friends towards the end of the movie, "I guess I always have been - I just didn't know it," and Cates' youthful beauty and innocence make it completely believable. Page Hannah (Daryl's sister) seems to not take herself as seriously as her more famous sister does - and her hilarious portrayal of the tight-assed Luanne morphs from rigid propriety to semi-unbridled lust. Pudge finally meets a boy who loves her for everything she is, and Gish has a field day with the character. But it is Fonda's portrayal of the bad-girl preacher's daughter who steals the show. Described by one reviewer as "*Dirty Dancing* meets *Mystic Pizza* meets *American Graffiti*," as a coming-of-age film, *Shag* is nothing less than enchanting. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 24, 2004 | | Summary | GRITS | Content
| This movie has got to be the best movie (along with Gone With the Wind) ever! I have actually worn out my VHS tape because my girlfriends and I (all from South Carolina) get together to watch it at least once a week! I went to Senior Week (as Sun Fun weekend is known to graduating seniors from SC) four years ago, as did every graduating senior in SC, as did our parents before us. My mom loves to watch it because it reminds her of her Senior Week (in 1963)! Those who don't like it, are usually guys or those who don't know what shagging is or how to do it (people not from SC or the South, basically). So give it a chance, don't just rent it, you have to buy it! |
| Rating | | | Date | October 29, 2003 | | Summary | NO SELF-RESPECTING SOUTHERNER SHOULD BE WITHOUT IT | Content
| Ah, Shag! This is one of my favorite movies for so many reasons. The movie is definitely lightweight, but also very memorable. The perfect casting had one thing to do with that. Everyone in this movie, down to the late Carrie Hamilton, is made-to-order. The "Southern" details of this movie are also dead-on. As a North Carolinian who's spent a heck of a lot of time in Myrtle Beach (though in the '90s, not in the '60s) the accents, expressions, music, and clothes are all correct for the time and place. The story is simple, but most great movies have simple plots when you get right down to it. What makes Shag shine is great acting, fantastic period details, and quotable dialogue. Watch this movie with another Southerner or anybody else who could appreciate the humor and the fun of this great movie. Whether it's your first time or your 100th time watching it, Shag is absolutely the "most fun"!
By the way, though this is not the original motion picture soundtrack, it's still pretty darn good. For those of you who didn't see the early VHS version of the movie, let me explain: some of the songs were in the original version of the movie and are still in this version; others were added later. The original movie soundtrack, which I still have, contains new versions of old songs, plus a couple of original ones. I don't know why it was changed, but I'd sure like to have a copy of the DVD with the original soundtrack, which includes songs by K.D Lang and Randy Newman, to name a few. |
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