Gidget
- The Complete Series DVD
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Cute. Spunky. And totally irresistible. Join perky 15-year-old
gidget & her ever-loving father russ in all 32 episodes of the
series. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 03/21/2006
Starring: Sally Field Don Porter Run time: 768 minutes
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Gidget launched the career of the ever-perky Sally Field (who
decades later still looks like the sweetie-pie beach bunny she
played in the mid-'60s series). The show is a valentine to Southern
California, surfing, and plucky girl power--in fact, Gidget's
self-aware musings and intrepid ways of getting out of trouble lay
the groundwork for later TV heroines like Buffy and Veronica Mars.
The show's aged surprisingly well, mostly because of the undeniable
charms of Field, who seems to take her teenage "horror stories"--as
when squeeze Jeff (a.k.a. Moon Doggie) is poised to return to
Princeton and suggests they date other people--with a knowing grain
of salt. The teen drama is all a bit tongue in cheek, since it's
clear nothing will get our Gidget down for long. The dialogue is a
real treat, a crazy mix of late film noir ("How old's the underripe
tomato?") and pre-Summer of Love hipster California-speak ("Well,
look at all the wiggy birds around here!"). The set includes all 32
episodes, with a short interview with Field, who has a lot of
affection for her young persona--as do we all, Daddy-o. --A.T.
Hurley