Starhops

Starhops (1978)

They do it all for you!

After the owner of a failing drive-in restaurant sells his establishment, two waitresses and a French chef try to turn it around.

Date of release
1978-03-02
TMDB
4.0 / 10 (13)
Runtime
1h 28m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Barbara Peeters

Casting

Interesting facts

Starhops is 1977 exploitation comedy film directed by Barbara Peeters, based on a script by Stephanie Rothman, writing under a pseudonym, and was edited by future Oscar winning screenwriter Steve Zaillian.

Production

Rothman originally wrote the script, then entitled Carhops, while she was at Dimension Pictures. She took it with her when she left Dimension in 1975 and sold it to some producers, with whom she signed a contract to direct. Rothman says "They gave me a start date for the picture, but I never heard from them after that. Instead, one day I read in Daily Variety that Barbara Peeters had been hired to direct it.

Barbara Peeters had, like Rothman, made films for New World Pictures.

The drive-in was located on the northeast corner of Knox St. and N. Maclay Ave in the San Fernando Valley. The Masonic Lodge with its distinctive white pillars and square sign is still across the street.

Rothman says she saw the finished film and asked for her name to be taken off the credits as she felt "there was not an idea, a scene, a word, or even a comma left from my original script." She took the pseudonym "Dallas Meredith", later specifying "Let me say it as plainly as I can: Starhops is not my fault."

Peeters called the film "camp. Just these girls running amok. It was stuff we [she and her friends] would have done, just crazy kind of stuff.”

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