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You may have to dig back into your memory, but there are quite a few movies that have either plots centered around waterskiing, or include scenes featuring waterskiing. Here they are.
1953 - Easy
To Love
1967 - Clambake
1978 - Jaws 2
1983 - Jaws 3-D
1987 - Delta Fever
1988 - The
Great Outdoors
1989 - License To Kill (James Bond)
1989 - Weekend at Bernie's
1992 - Meatballs 4
1992 - The Goofy World of Sports
1994 - My Father The Hero
2005 - Cheaper By The Dozen 2
Synopsis: Steve Martin returns as the proud patriarch of the Baker family in this sequel to the original CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN, based on a book by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth. This time, all twelve Baker kids and their parents, Tom (Martin) and Kate (Bonnie Hunt), are going on vacation, returning to their summer cabin in Wisconsin for one last hurrah before the kids grow up and go their separate ways.
Category: Comedy
Rating: PG
Notable Cast: Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt
Clambake (1967)
Synopsis: Elvis is a millionaire's son who trades identities with an impecunious water-skiing instructor to learn about life and love.
Category: Musical
Notable Cast: Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, Will Hutchins, Bill Bixby, James Gregory, Gary Merrill
Delta Fever (1987)
Synopsis: Against the background of competitive waterskiing, a young man is prodded by his family, friends and girlfriend into adult responsibility.
Rating: PG.
Notable Cast: Leif Garrett, Denver Pyle
Synopsis: Set in Cypress Gardens, Florida, the resident water queen swims, dives and water skis her way through a series of romantic entanglements.
Category: Musical
Notable Cast: Esther Williams, Van Johnson, Tony Martin
The Goofy World of Sports (Disney - 1992)
Synopsis: Goofy stars in his most hilarious adventures involving sports. First Goofy goes for gold in "Olympic Champ," then Donald Duck takes his nephews golfing in "Donald's Golf Game," next, Goofy shows us skiing techniques in "The Art of Skiing," and finally in "Aquamania," Goofy and his son are in a water skiing race.
Category: Family
Notable Cast: Goofy, Donald Duck
The Great Outdoors (1988)
Synopsis: Two brothers-in-law, whose only shared trait is their intense dislike for one another, set off on a comic misadventure when their two families share a summer vacation home at a lakeside resort.
Category: Comedy
Rating: PG
Notable Cast: Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Annette Bening
Jaws 2 (1978)
Synopsis: Amity police chief Brody discovers that there's more than one fish in the sea - the Great White Shark he destroyed has a hungry mate ready to wreak havoc on the community. As Mayor Vaughn (Murray Hamilton) is welcoming a real estate developer to Amity, two divers disappear and a party of water-skiers is consumed by a shark.
Category: Horror
Rating: PG
Notable Cast: Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, Joe Mascolo
Jaws 3-D (1983)
Synopsis: An ocean-themed Florida amusement park comes under attack from an angry Great White shark.
Category: Horror
Rating: PG
Notable Cast: Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Simon MacCorkindale, Louis Gossett Jr, Lea Thompson, John Putch
License To Kill (James Bond) (1989)
Synopsis: Bond is working on his own rather than on behalf of the British Secret Service. His American friend Felix Leiter (David Hedison), an agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration, has been seriously injured by drug dealer Robert Davi, and 007 is out for blood. Bond is captured and escapes on a plane undergoing a drugs exchange (destroying the drugs and taking the money in the process) after waterskiing behind it then throwing out the pilots.
Category: Spy Film, Action
Rating: PG-13
Notable Cast: Timothy Dalton, Carey Lowell, Robert Davi
Meatballs 4 (1992)
Synopsis: Hot-shot ski instructor Ricky Wade must defend his position as the number one water ski ace and win the annual ski competition to save beautiful lakeside summer camp. Ricky's only hope is to fight back with the tricks handed down from one "Meatballs" generation to the next.
Category: Comedy
Rating: R
Notable Cast: Corey Feldman, Jack Nance, Sarah Douglas, J. Trevor Edmond, Johnny Cocktails
My Father The Hero (1994)
Synopsis: Romantic comedy about the trials and tribulations of a father who brings his young daughter on a vacation in paradise. In an effort to impress the boy of her dreams, the girl pretends that her father is her lover. (World Champion Mike Hazelwood is a stunt double riding a pair of jumpers.)
Category: Comedy
Rating: PG
Notable Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Katherine Heigl, Lauren Hutton, Dalton James
Synopsis: Two guys intend to spend the weekend partying with their boss, a plan complicated by the fact that he's dead.
Category: Comedy
Rating: PG-13
Notable Cast: Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Silverman, Terry Kiser
Do you know of any other movies featuring waterskiing? Post to the forum.
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