Beverly Hills Family Robinson
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Genre Comedy, Family Director Troy Millerr First episode date 1997 | 4.6/10 IMDb Duration Running time 1h 30m Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1997 (1997) Network American Broadcasting Company Cast Similar movies Johann David Wyss wrote the story for Beverly Hills Family Robinson and Swiss Family Robinson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A shipwreck strands a TV personality (Dyan Cannon), a dentist (Martin Mull) and their kids on an untamed tropical island.
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Beverly Hills Family Robinson is a 1997 American Walt Disney television film based on the novel Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss. The film features Dyan Cannon, Martin Mull, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan ODonohue as the main cast and was aired on ABC.
This Disney film was shot in the Far North of Queensland, Australia from 25 January to 23 February 1996.
Marsha Robinson, host of a TV cooking show, takes her family on a working vacation to a South Seas Island, but their yacht is hijacked by pirates, and then shipwrecked, and the Robinsons must survive Marsha's complaints while they build a treehouse, meet a handsome carpenter, bond together as a family and fight off the pirates
Plot
Marsha Robinson (Dyan Cannon) is a famous TV personality and has her own lifestyle and cooking show. Together with her husband Doug (Martin Mull), a dentist, her daughter Jane (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and her son Roger (Ryan ODonohue) she lives in Beverly Hills. Marshas TV show takes her and her family to Hawaii. When the Robinsons arrive in Honolulu their yacht is captured by modern pirates at night and when they wake up in the morning they find themselves and their unbidden guests on the open sea. But being the Robinsons they trick the pirates and leave them behind in a lifeboat.
When things finally seemed to be good and the Robinsons try to sail to the next harbor, the yacht gets into a storm and the family shipwrecks on a deserted island. Of course, Marsha Robinson - being a socialite - freaks out and threatens her husband with a nervous breakdown if they arent saved within the next 45 minutes and the rest of the family isnt fond of their situation either. But nobody saves them and nobody knows where they are. So theres nothing to do but settle in, survive and build a tree house.
Life on the island turns into routine, although Marsha films herself while giving statements about her familys miserable situation after the shipwreck - just in case theyll be saved and she has footage for TV shows.
Meanwhile the pirates have been stranded on the island, too, which the Robinsons do not know. The island also has an inhabitant, a shipwrecked surfer named Digger, who secretly eats all of Marshas chocolates. The Robinsons get to know him when Doug has an underwater-accident and needs to be saved by a good swimmer. Jane falls in love with him. He helps the Robinsons finish their treehouse and becomes a member of the family.
The pirates discover the Robinsons and now the Robinsons need to struggle with the unbidden guests once again.
Similar Movies
Johann David Wyss wrote the story for Beverly Hills Family Robinson and Swiss Family Robinson. The New Swiss Family Robinson (1999). Lt Robin Crusoe - USN (1966). A Friend Is a Treasure (1981). Toothless (1997).
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