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  • 1984
  • R
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 28 m
  • 1984
  • R
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 28 m

Summary Three middle-aged daddies visit California to have a marvelous time at the beach. When they learn that a nice apartment and an expensive cabriolet isn't enough for them to score with the chicks, they employ a student to help them. At first he's as disgusted of them and his job as his girlfriend, but soon they find out how to use the situ...

Directed By: Mark Griffiths

Written By: Steve Greene, Eric Alter, Mark Griffiths

  • 1984
  • R
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 28 m
  • 1984
  • R
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 28 m

Hardbodies

Metascore Overwhelming Dislike Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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User Score Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
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Summary Three middle-aged daddies visit California to have a marvelous time at the beach. When they learn that a nice apartment and an expensive cabriolet isn't enough for them to score with the chicks, they employ a student to help them. At first he's as disgusted of them and his job as his girlfriend, but soon they find out how to use the situ...

Directed By: Mark Griffiths

Written By: Steve Greene, Eric Alter, Mark Griffiths

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A cheap pickup from the Playboy Channel that was too soft for Playboy but appropriately raunchy for the college movie crowd. [27 Apr 1984]
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Dumb sex comedy...Not much here except loads of beautiful women in swimsuits.
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This isn't the kind of sexy California beach film that lulls you into a pleasant stupor. It's the kind that makes you wish for a biblical plague.
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Soft porn from Columbia Pictures (let's name 'n shame 'em) without a single redeeming feature.
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Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
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80% Positive
4 Ratings
0% Mixed
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20% Negative
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Production Company Chroma III Productions, Columbia Pictures
Release Date May 4, 1984
Duration 1 h 28 m
Rating R
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Tagline If you don't know what they are, you don't know what you're missing.
Website http://www.sonymoviechannel.com/movies/hardbodies
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