Bachelor Party (film)

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For the 1957 film, see The Bachelor Party.

Bachelor Party
The movie poster for Bachelor Party.
Directed by	Neal Israel
Produced by	Bob Israel Ron Moler Raju Patel
Written by	Bob Israel Neal Israel Pat Proft
Starring	Tom Hanks Tawny Kitaen Robert Prescott Wendie Jo Sperber Deborah Harmon George Grizzard Michael Dudikoff Gary Grossman
Music by	Robert Folk
Cinematography	Hal Trussell
Editing by	Tom Walls
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	June 29, 1984
Running time	105 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$6,000,000
Gross revenue	$38,400,000 (USA) and $19,070,000 in rentals (USA)
Followed by	Bachelor Party 2
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Bachelor Party is a 1984 comedy film starring Tom Hanks, Tawny Kitaen, Adrian Zmed, Robert Prescott, and Deborah Harmon, directed by Neal Israel. The original music score was composed by Robert Folk. It was followed 24 years later by the sequel Bachelor Party 2.

1 Plot
2 Taglines
3 Production
4 Trivia
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Plot

In the film, party-animal Rick Gassko (Hanks) decides to settle down and marry his girlfriend Debbie Thompson (Kitaen), so his friends throw him one final debauchery-laden bash. Debbie suspects Rick of cheating on her at this bachelor party and, with the help of her friends and the spouse of her future brother-in-law, hatches a plan to catch him in the act.

A notorious scene in the film involves a quaalude-popping, cocaine-snorting donkey who dies of a drug overdose.

[edit] Taglines

"Shocking, shameless, sinful, wicked. And the party hasn't even started."
"A man's tradition every woman should know about."
"Gentlemen... start your boners."

[edit] Production

In 1981, Gary Grossman threw a bachelor party for his friend Bob Israel. Inspired by the occasion, Israel and fellow advertising specialist Ron Moler decided to produce a comedy about the ritual. As first-time producers, however, they needed to secure financial backing for the film. Normally, this would be accomplished by presenting potential backers a finished script. For Bachelor Party, Israel and Moler instead created a mock ad campaign that so impressed Twin Continental Films that they provided the producers with the necessary funds to develop the project. Israel brought in his brother Neal to direct, and together they worked out a storyline, that Neal and Pat Proft expanded into a final script. Realizing the project’s commercial potential, executive producer Joe Roth sent the screenplay - accompanied by the poster campaign - to 20th Century Fox, who agreed to distribute the film upon its completion.

Filming of Bachelor Party began on August 15, 1983, and production was completed on November 11, 1983. Two days into production, filming was suspended and Bachelor Party went on hiatus for one month while the filmmakers recast the parts. Production resumed in September with the new cast. The following actors were replaced:

Paul Reiser - Rick Gassko (replaced by Tom Hanks)
Kelly McGillis - Debbie Thompson (replaced by Tawny Kitaen)
Andy Bumatai - Rudy LeForte (replaced by Barry Diamond)

[edit] Trivia

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[edit] General trivia

The restaurant where Ryko works is “A Drinking and Gathering Place”, according to the decal on the outside window. The name of the restaurant is obscured.
The pin-ups on Rick and Debbie’s refrigerator are drawings of Flintstones characters.
The movie Brad is watching on TV in the hotel room is The Little Princess, a 1939 drama starring Shirley Temple.
When Rick juggles 3 meatballs then throws in the pot, he misses the first throw, later it slides down from the grate.
Rosanne Katon (Darlene, one of the “twins of pleasure”) was a centerfold in the September 1978 issue of Playboy magazine.
The husband of the honeymoon couple is screenwriter Pat Proft.
The space battle scenes on the movie screen (where Rick fights Cole) are from the 1980 movie Battle Beyond the Stars.
The producers seriously considered then-unknowns Jim Carrey, Tim Robbins and Howie Mandel for the role of Rick Gassko, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Linda Hamilton for the role of Debbie Thompson.^{[citation needed]}
Tom Hanks said that he only did this movie for money.

[edit] Location trivia

The location for the Parkview Hotel was the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.
St. Gabriel's Catholic School (shown in the opening scene of the film) is really John Marshall High School, located at 3939 Tracy Street in Los Angeles.
Mann 6 Theaters in Simi Valley, California.

[edit] Bachelor Party in pop culture

The film is referenced in the other films Get Over It (2001), How High (2001), and Clerks II (2006), as well as the 1995 "Wedding" episode of the television show NewsRadio.

[edit] References

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