Welcome to Paradise

1995

Action / Drama / Romance

7
IMDb Rating 4.8/10 10 199 199

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Plot summary

Anne is feeling trapped by her life as housewife. She convinces Denise and Claire to take off for spring break at Paradise Beach, just like they did twenty years before. Claire, who works for Euro Tropic suntan lotion, tries to avoid falling in love with Jean-Luc, the new product spokesman. Denise rekindles her old relationship with Mark, the perennial lifeguard. And Anne is approached by George, the young desk manager at the hotel.

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Top cast

Shelley Long as Anne
Michael McGrady as Mark Sheridan
DeLane Matthews as Denise
Ian Ziering as George Peck
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1 hr 34 min
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1 hr 34 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by petershelleyau

Welcome to Paradise

Three friends from Columbus, Ohio go to Paradise Beach, Florida during Spring Break week to revisit the vacation spot of their youth 20 years ago. Mel Harris is Claire Denowski, an advertising executive who goes on assignment, Shelley Long is housewife and mother Anne Winger, and Delane Matthews is sales woman and recently divorced Denise Discotis. Claire's company has hired French Olympic skier Jean-Luc Perron (Francois-Eric Gendron) as a spokesperson, and Claire finds herself attracted to him, Denise meets her lifeguard first love Matt Sheridan (Michael McGrady), and Anne is bothered by the attentions of their hotel desk manager George Peck (Ian Ziering), in spite of Anne being the one of the three who is married. The teleplay by Bart Baker places `the fearless three' in an adolescent environment of buffed bodies, hi-jinks, alcohol and sex, where they are so conscious of the age difference that they wear make-up on the beach, and each has a turn in being humiliated. The worst is Anne, since the only time Long is shown to be desirable is when she is alone, painting her toenails with a leg outstretched. Her situation with George, who knows she is married but pursues her anyway, allows him to scold her for her justifiable rejection. (That Ziering acts as narcissistically as on his TV series Beverly Hills 90210 makes us pity Anne even more). There is also an odd use of cross-dressing, where the threesome are shown to be most ungenerous. Harris uses eye mugging, gives Anne a long look of comic anger when she learns of Anne roping Claire into shared accomodation at their frat hotel, and is funny when yelling at someone who crashes into her on the street with `I'm walking here'. The treatment interestingly plays off Harris' mannish body language, though Jean-Luc's first view of Claire has Harris lit beautifully, and she is reduced to jumping into a pool in bra and panties. Jean-Luc surprises Claire eating seafood wearing a bib, and drinking beer in a six-pak as she sits in a masculine pose, and when she is forced into modelling with Jean-Luc for the campaign, her protestations are ironic in light of Harris' initial modelling days.Director Bill Norton uses slow motion when all the women dive into the pool, and various other sporting activities, but his use of extras for flesh quotant borders on sleaze.
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Reviewed by mark.waltz 4 / 10

Don't expect much reality. You'll be spared a break.

The Only Thing Worth watching in this is the charming performance of Shelley Long as the beleaguered housewife and mother who has a 30-second demand of silence and decides that she needs to get away from her overbearing family and go away with her two college girlfriends to Paradise Beach Florida for a little r&r. The first 5 minutes of the film might make certain people either turn the channel or pull the DVD out and fling it across the room because Long's family is one of the most obnoxious I seen on screen, and I've seen some pretty obnoxious TV sitcom and movie families. They certainly aren't the Brady Bunch, the more popular of the TV moms (for the big screen) that Long had played.

I really had little interest in her two friends, both cliched and cold characters, one a recent divorcee and the other a hard-nosed business woman, both manipulated by Long to meet up with her, finding out that the hotel they once stayed at has been condemned (even though Long had just apparently made a reservation. They end up in the hotel run by Ian Zierling who has one of the feel amusing moments, seeing right through Long's claim that they belong to the Chamber of Commerce, and the fact that he takes an interest in Long creates complications, one of the few conflicts in the movie. This seems to be a rip off of the much better written British play "Shirley Valentine", which had real wit and a freshness to it that this lacks. Definitely skippable unless like me you are a Shelley Long fan.

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