TROOP BEVERLY HILLS (1989)

 




















Directed by: Jeff Kanew
Starring: Shelley Long, Craig T. Nelson, Jenny Lewis, Betty Thomas, Mary Gross, Stephanie Beacham, Tori Spelling, Carla Gugino, Emily Schulman, Ami Foster, Kellie Martin, Karen Kopins, Aquilina Soriano, Tasha Scott, Heather Hopper, Audra Lindley, Shelley Morrison, Dinah Lacey, Willie Garson, Mary Pat Gleason, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Frankie Avalon, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Annette Funicello, Robin Leach, Cheech Marin, Ted McGinley, Pia Zadora, Hilary Shepard

103 minutes
(PG - mild language, adult themes, adult situations)

PLOT:
As Phyllis, a Beverly Hills housewife, is in the middle of a divorce, she tries to find focus in her life by taking over her daughter Hannah's Wilderness Girl troop. Among the girls are Tiffany, (who her father has to bribe to attend meetings), Emily (the daughter of an out of work actor, whose financial difficulties hinders her wanting to participate in certain activities), the neurotic Tessa (whose parents divorce has forced her into therapy twice a week), the hostile Chica (whose parents are too busy with their own lives to even remember her birthday), and Claire (the child star who see the wilderness girls as her chance to lead a "normal" life). Phyllis then begins to take the girls camping at a Beverly Hills hotel and earn patches relating to material things. The district leader, Velda, feels the troop should be disbanded. However, the head of the Wilderness Girls organization believes that as long as Phyllis has taken an active interest in the girls, that is the only thing that's important. Then Velda begins to sabotage the girls endlessly.

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