Summertime Blues: Lemon Popsicle VIII

Summertime Blues: Lemon Popsicle VIII (1988)

אסקימו לימון 8: בלוז לקיץ

It's summertime and Johnny hits upon the idea of restoring a disused old bar with his old friends Benny and Bobby. Raising the capital however is a problem, but luckily the landlord's geeky daughter Polly has long harbored a crush on Bobby. Bobby wants no part of this and neither does Polly who smells a rat. As the boys work on restoring the bar, preparing for it's grand re-opening, Polly's guard softens as seemingly does Bobby's but at the expense of possible heartbreak in the unlikeliest of places....

Data di uscita
1988-08-18
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (40)
Durata
1 h 25 min
Generi
Commedia, Romance
Regista
Reinhard Schwabenitzky
Collezione
Lemon Popsicle

Cast

Curiosità

Lemon Popsicle is a 1978 teen comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Boaz Davidson. It is the most commercially successful Israeli film of all time, which has led to the production of a series of sequels. The cult film follows a group of three teenage boys in early-1960s Tel Aviv.

Production

"Eskimo Limon" was produced by "Sarei Nahum" Studios, owned by Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, who were also responsible for its distribution and screening. Zeev Rav-Nof expressed the opinion that the company's dominance in the Israeli film market significantly contributed to its success.

According to Boaz Davidson, the screenplay was inspired by his own youth as well as the American film American Graffiti.

The production budget amounted to three million ILs, of which one million was paid as royalties to the copyright holders of the songs in the soundtrack. The film's music was adapted to the era and includes hits from the late 1950s and early 1960s, featuring songs such as Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley, Tutti Frutti and Long Tall Sally (Little Richard), Put Your Head on My Shoulder, You Are My Destiny, Diana (Paul Anka), Greenfields (The Brot…

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