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Title: The Surfer King
Genre: Comedy (Teen)
Language: English
Running Time: 95 minutes
Rights Available: Television Rights, North America
Director: Bernard Murray
Cast: Randy Wayne, Ben Ziff, Gabriel Iglesias, Keri
Lynn Pratt, Cerina Vincent, with Alan Thicke and Lindsay Wagner
Synopsis: Seventeen-year old Robbie Zirpollo
(Randy Wayne) has a problem. As our story opens, his mother Connie
(Lindsay Wagner) is driving him to his new summer job. We learn
that Robbie has grown up in Oceanside, California, but now he
and his mother have moved to Colorado for a fresh start, as his
father has taken the familys savings and his secretary
to Mexico. Robbies mom has, through an uncle, gotten him
a summer job at Water World on the grounds crew.
On his first day on the job,
standing in line to get his uniform, Robbie meets Alex (Ben Ziff),
a concessions worker who works for Aokee (Gabriel Iglesias),
the manager of Aokees Surf and Snack Shack.
Walking to the front of the line demanding (quietly but firmly)
her uniform is Tiffany (Cerina Vincent), the daughter of park
owner Mike "Big Mike" Maxwell (Denis Berkfeldt). She
is a drop-dead gorgeous girl, and as the owners daughter,
does pretty much what she wants. Robbie is stunned by her.
Later, we learn that Aokee
is one position short, as a kid who worked there last year has
decided to go to work at The Gap. Alex remembers Robbie, and
convinces Aokee to give Robbie a shot. Alex and Aokee run over
to extricate Robbie just as he is being handed his Grounds Crew
plunger.
The park opens the next day
and Robbie, getting a tour from Alex, meets a lifeguard named
Katie (Keri Lynn Pratt), a pretty girl, very nice and sweet.
Alex makes it his personal mission to get Katie and Robbie together.
We get to know the kids working at the park as well as the characters
who just hang out there.
We also get to know Aokee,
a gentle Hawaiian who works the park every summer. His dream
has been for one of his concessions staff (Why is it always a
guard?) to win the coveted trophy from the parks annual
Employee Olympics, a contest culminated by a surfing competition
in the parks wave pool. Robbie reveals that he has surfed
in California all his life. Aokee convinces him that he will
be the new Surfer King.
As the Employee Olympics approaches,
Aokee gets Robbie together with the legendary Pipeman
(Alan Thicke) a park plumber and former surfer who knows how
to make the transition from ocean wave to park wave. Tiffany,
unbeknownst to him, hatches a plot to distract Robbie so that
her boyfriend, The Cowboy (Travis Perkins), can retain his title.
The rest of the fun unfolds
from there, leading up to the final scene when Alex explains,
Just another summer at Water World.
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