EDITOR’S NOTE: Beach Balls was on USA Up All Night on August 30, 1991; February 22 and September 25, 1992; May 1 and July 2 and 24, 1993. 

Charlie Harrison (Phillip Paley, Cha-Ka from Land of the Lost) wants to be a rock star, so he puts his own concert together. He has Christian parents, a sidekick named Scully (Steven Tash and a girl he wants that’s out of his league, Wendy (the late Heidi Helmer). He’s also on probation for driving drunk, which was less of a big deal in 1988. Our hero introduces her to the lead singer of Severed Heads In A Bag, Keith (Douglas R. Star), which is not the way to get the girl. Maybe if he gets his own guitar, he can win her back.

Director Joe Ritter wrote The Toxic Avenger and is a Steadicam guy now. This is the only film David Rocklin wrote.

The band in this is the D.R. Starr Band, led by Douglas Randall Starr. Yes, the guy who plays Keith., They were known for jazz-infused rock and glam metal. If you went to Gazzarri’s on the Sunset Strip in the 1980s, you might have seen them. Apparently, Steve Vai contributed to some of the songs on this album.

One of the punks, Mollusk, is Gary Schneider, Bozo from The Toxic Avenger.

This is a more innocent teen comedy than most. The artwork for it promises, well, beach balls. You get none.

You can watch this on YouTube.