THE BOARD WALK
- Marilyn
LOG LINE: The Board Walk is a light hearted summer movie about
four college grads who are planning their lives yet enjoying fully their last
summer off as students.
SYNOPSIS: Gizelle and
Laura two neighbors in a beach resort community setting visit the beach and
meet Lizard and Sam two locals all four just finished college. They hook up and begin to date these
attractive, young couples. Life begins
to unfold new opportunities as the movie unfolds in breathtaking scenery of a
vacation picture card.
Laura lads a job as the weather girl; a sexy spot to promote
ratings at the TV station. Her job
includes looking stunning and attracting a wide audience of viewers. Gizelle plans to work as an assistant at a
cosmetic surgery practice in the fall. Lizard is a manager at Adam’s Plant
World where he finds his peace and solace creating a garden environment in his
condo overlooking the beach. Sam is planning to join his dad who is near
retirement in his investment firm in the fall.
Gizelle and Laura both purchase Persian kittens Alexandra and
Alexander who wear studded rhinestone collars and play together. They continue
to date Lizard and Sam and delve into the deeper aspects of themselves through
relationship. The story also involves
great shopping and dining a la a tourist’s fantasy.
Lizard sells his classic Cadillac with collector’s plates and
Harley Davidson bike and buys a Tessla Roadster electric car to stay dry in the
winter months driving to work. Gizelle and he now have matching electric cars.
Momentum is building around Laura’s career and she is receiving
a lot of attention from her poster hung all over town and he job. Fan mail begins to come in with proposals
from men and general friendly letters.
Veronica Gizelle’s sister leaves her ex and shows up at
Gizelle’s door. She stays with her to
recover from the stress of the break up and spends time at the beach shopping
and with her sister having a good visit. She has an affair with a local and
then is ready to return to find a new condo to move to.
Lizard has strange experiences of déjà vu on the board walk at
the beach he tries to explain this to his friends however understanding is not
really there fully till he finds a gold watch on it walking along there one
afternoon. He finds it belongs to a couple who are on a sailing trip. He returns the watch and is invited for
dinner aboard their sail boat.
Veronica returns back to find her new lodgings away from her ex and
has renewed confidence in her future divorced.
Laura is gaining more fame in her job and is sent on promotional
assignments to promote herself as weather girl. Sam and her get more
recognition as they go out together on dates through her fame. A mysterious old man customer of Sam’s dad
invites them out to a cliff top estate for dinner. They find a highly bitter man married to an
effervescent wife both are in their 90’s. He husband dies few days later after
a final misery performance at the party and Margaret his widowed wife invites he
young friend to visit for a swim at her estate with a standing invitation as she
is light hearted and loves the company of young people not depression setting in
with age. She makes jokes that she has new
male lovers she leaves keys for to her estate and they must fill the fruit bowl
(under filled by lazy staff she tells them) is the only requirement of heir visits
with the girls to her home. The four young people are enchanted with her invitation
and head off into the fall with their careers and social live set up in high style.