Synopsis
Good girls Merritt, Melanie, Tuggle and Angie - all students at mid-western Penmore University - are planning on going to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for spring break to get away from the mid-western snow despite not having much money to spend once there. On the drive down, they admit their real purpose is to go where the boys are.
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Cast
- Dolores HartMerritt Andrews
- George HamiltonRyder Smith
- Yvette MimieuxMelanie Tolman
- Jim HuttonTV Thompson
- Barbara NicholsLola Fandango
- Paula PrentissTuggle Carpenter
- Chill WillsPolice Captain
- Frank GorshinBasil
- Rory HarrityFranklin
- Ted BergerStout Man on Beach
Recommendations
- 78
Austin Chronicle
Considering how lame the bulk of teen movies made in the late Fifties and early Sixties look in retrospect, Where the Boys Are stands up respectably well. - 75
The A.V. Club
Aside from a few unfunny comic setpieces, Where The Boys Are is generally entertaining, thanks to vivid location footage and a likable cast. - 75
New Orleans Times-Picayune
The tender, comic romance between Prentiss and Hutton is one of the charming film's highlights, as is Francis' hilarious big-screen debut. [02 Jan 2004, p.4] - 70
TV Guide Magazine
WHERE THE BOYS ARE is plenty moralistic, yet the film is not without a naive sense of charm. - 70
Variety
Mimieux, in a demanding role, gets by dramatically. Visually she is a knockout, and has a misty quality. - 60
Los Angeles Times
Despite an undercurrent of rebellion against adult attitudes, the point of view about sex is so conservative that the film could have been shown at PTA meetings without a murmur of protest. [25 Nov 1990, p.62] - 40
The New York Times
Inspired by the novel of Glendon Swarthout, which one reviewer described as "a highly carbonated elixir of sex, sun-shine and beer," it has been patterned into a movie by the glib script writer, George Wells, so that it looks and sounds like a chummy dramatization of the Kinsey reports.
