Beverly Hills Family Robinson
with Sarah Michelle Gellar as jill Robinson
GALLERY
Director: Troy Miller
Producers: Jeffrey Lampert and Irwin Marcus
(Adapted from the novel by Johann David Wyss)
Screenplay: Lowell S. Hawley and T.C. Smith
Co-starring: Diane Cannon, Martin Mull,
Ryan O'Donohue
US Release Date: 25 January 1997
Length: 88 minutes (90 in Argentina)
Genre: Comedy
Interesting Character Scale
(Helen Shivers=0 Buffy Summers=10}: two
Best scene for Gellar: On the beach.
Filmed in Australia, this film is less realistic than Gilligan's Island. With Martin Mull and Jennifer Holt. Kevin Weisman (Brinx) was Dreg in BTVS.
Troy Miller, who directed this turkey (do they have turkeys in Australia?) was the director of "Tracy Ulman's State of the Union" on Showtime. This is the only bad film in which Sarah Michelle Gellar has had more than a cameo.
A Martha Stewart clone (Dyan Cannon) takes her family on vacation to a Pacific island. Their yacht is hijacked by some incompetent pirates who wreck the ship, stranding them on a deserted island. They build things, meet a handsome carpenter, and defeat the pirates (who were stranded as well).
CAST
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Sarah Michelle Gellar - Jane Robinson
Dyan Cannon - Marsha Robinson
Martin Mull - Doug Robinson
Ryan O'Donohue - Roger Robinson
Jennifer Holt - Production Assistant
Josh Picker - Digger
Kevin Weisman - Brinx
Michael Edward-Stevens - Black Pirate
Nique Needles - Melvin
Isuara Gualberto - Cha Cha
Jeffrey Lampert - Producer