It may look like another boys & girls on the beach movie, but there's a bit more happening here than in your average Frankie & Annette beach frolic. There IS a message here, no matter how clumsily delivered, about the way men (or boys) use women and how some women, no matter how strong, feel somehow incomplete without a man. Any man. What makes this all a bit easier to digest is a cast of four really sharp actresses who bring enough baggage (emotional, that is) to provide layers to this film that the screenwriter may never have imagined. The vastly underrated Paula Prentiss, Yvette Mimieux, Connie Francis and especially Dolores Hart are all accomplished actresses. It's all a bit corny, but extremely appealing.
Review of Where the Boys Are
