Product Details

• Actors: Sandra Dee, James Darren, Cliff Robertson, Arthur O'Connell, The Four Preps
• Directors: Paul Wendkos
• Writers: Frederick Kohner, Gabrielle Upton
• Producers: Lewis J. Rachmil
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• VHS Release Date: June 4, 1996
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303589189
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #97,138 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sandra Dee at her liveliest and her most appealing!, September 26, 2000

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chad edwards (cincinnati, ohio USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gidget [VHS] (VHS Tape)

There were three films centering on the perky, fun-loving beach bunny, Gidget. This was the first and by far the best!!!!! Pert and pretty Sandra Dee was seventeen and at her liveliest and most appealing when she made this cute little flick. She is absolutely irresistable in the title role, a cute, fun-loving American teenage girl who would rather hit the beach than chase after boys like her other girlfriends. However, when she meets two handsome beachbums, Gidget goes a little boy-crazy herself and experiences first love in the process. This is a warm, charming, and funny movie. I have no doubt that this is the film that made Sandra Dee such a popular star. It's easy to see why she became the idol of so many American girls and boys alike. If you're looking for good, clean and solid fun, then GIDGET is the movie for you!!!!!

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Clean Fun, October 17, 2001

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Brenda (Utah) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gidget [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Gidget is a young underdeveloped teen who is a bit behind her friends. While they all want to chase boys, all she wants to do is learn how to surf.
She becomes friends with a group of surfer boys who teach her how. She also develops a crush on one of them (Moondoggie).
As the movie progresses we watch Gidget learn about life and love. We watch her get her heart broken, and then find happiness in the end.
Gidget is a great movie to watch with your friends--it's probably not a movie that guys would enjoy, so save it for a girls night!

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gidget is the one for me ...., March 11, 2003

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"safflowerangelica" (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gidget [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This movie always makes me think of sitting in a musty hotel room somewhere on the west coast, rained in, with a bowl of popcorn, my best friend and a cold pizza. Gidget was always our "nothing better to do, so lets have a giggle" movie. It is the quintessence of the early 60's beach movie, and as such can be rather painful to watch if you're not of the right mindset, but ohhh, when you are! Its the kind of movie to just tickle you pink and wipe all your worries away for a couple of hours.

The movie revolves around Francie Lawrence who is the perfect 1950's girl next door. Good at school, plays the cello, daddy's girl, exuberant tomboy with the shiny blonde locks. Francie isn't exactly "manhunt" material and her friends let her know it ... so instead she goes off and does tomboy things and gets herself caught up with a gang of summer break beach-bum wannabes headed by The Great Kahuna [the only real beach-bum in the bunch], and Moondoggie, who she of course falls for [A young Jimmy Darren folks. Who wouldn't?]. Francie takes up surfing herself and is adopted as the group mascot, the boys giving her the very politically incorrect nickname of "Gidget" [Girl+Midget].

Along her way to trying to get Moondoggie to see her as more than just a "crazy kid", she does a good deal of growing up, gets a VERY 50s-esque sex talk from her perfectly coiffed homemaker mother, and learns a valuable lesson or two from Grandma's old sampler.

Its charm is in its kitsch, its liveliness, its sun-shiny disposition. This movie is actually, genuinely cute, and its hard for me not to smile when I watch it. No matter how awful a day I've had. Of all the Gidget films, THIS is the most fun. The songs will stay with you for days afterwards, the script is genuinely sweet and funny even if it is a little hokey, and Sandra Dee is the best Gidget there ever was.

As the Gidge herself would say, Its The Absolute Ultimate!