EDITOR’S NOTE: Bikini Beach Race was on USA Up All Night on September 10, 1993; May 28 and November 18, 1994; September 23, 1995 and January 3, 1987.

According to Dave Wain, on his amazing The Schlock Pit, other than the director, Ron Jeremy and Dana Plato, this movie is totally a University of Miami film school movie.

It’s about a bed race — yes, a race with kid race car beds — that Milo (Xavier Barquet), Jaime (Nick Santa Maria), Byrdie (Waverly Hill) and Cheese (Mathew Mark) are trying to win. Luckily, they have a boat pilot by the name of J.D (Plato) who is their ringer.

Speaking of Plato, she was struggling to get her career back on track. She’d appeared in the January 1989 issue of Playboy and this same year she would be in the controversial Sega CD game Night Trap. A year before, she had gone to a Las Vegas video store, pulled out a pellet gun and asked for all the money in the cash register. The clerk called 911 and said, I’ve just been robbed by the girl who played Kimberly on Diff’rent Strokes.” She came back to the scene of the crime — she took $134 — and was arrested. Wayne Newton paid her $13,000 bail, half of which she was able to give back to him with her salary from this movie. Sadly, she would die in her sleep on May 18, 1998. It was thought to be an accidental overdose but later ruled a suicide. The day before, she had a Howard Stern Show appearance where she was lambasted by his callers. Around a decade later, her son would also kill himself.

I won’t even talk about Ron Jeremy and his sex pest arrest because this whole thing has been dark enough for a USA Up All Night beach sex movie. Actually, it’s all kind of dark, because writer Xavier Barquet — who was also the actor who played Milo — died at 46, way too young, of respiratory failure.

Director Eric Louzil also made Fortress of AmeriKKKa, Class of Nuke ‘Em High Part II: Subhumanoid Meltdown and Class of Nuke ‘Em High 3: The Good, the Bad and the Subhumanoid.

You can watch this on Tubi.