Beach Girls
31/07/2005
Beach Girls was a six-part 2005 American mini-series produced by Fox and Robert Greenwald Productions and broadcast by Lifetime. The teleplay by Edithe Swensen, Elle Triedman, and Eric Tuchman was based on the bestselling novel by Luanne Rice. The Beach Girls were three teenagers who spent their summers in the small, quiet beach town of Hubbard's Point. The trio grew apart and eventually went their separate ways, but the death of one of them reunites the surviving two, Stevie and Maddie, when her widower Jack and daughter Nell arrive in town. Paul Shapiro, Sandy Smolan, and Jeff Woolnough shared directing credits. The cast included Rob Lowe as Jack, Chelsea Hobbs as Nell, Julia Ormond as Stevie, and Katherine Ashby as Maddie, with Chris Carmack and Cloris Leachman in featured roles. The opening credits theme song was "Dreams," written by Dolores O'Riordan and Noel Hogan and performed by The Cranberries. The series was filmed in Chester, Crystal Crescent Beach, and Halifax, all located in Nova Scotia, Canada. It aired in France and Sweden in 2006, Australia in 2007 and New Zealand in 2010. It has been released on DVD by Warner Home Video.
TV Show Information
Rob Lowe
as Jack Kilvert
Chelsea Hobbs
as Nell Kilvert
Meredith Henderson
as
Nigel Bennett
as
Julia Ormond
as Stevie Moore
Tommy Lioutas
as
Lynda Boyd
as
Chris Carmack
as
Janaya Stephens
as
Kristin Adams
as
Kristen Hager
as
Cloris Leachman
as Aunt Aida
Maggie Castle
as
Hayley Tyson
as
Chris Gallinger
as
Daniel Fathers
as
Gary Levert
as
Adam MacDonald
as Marty Alba
Megan Edwards
as First Girlfriend
