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The Bachelor Party: Ideas and Inspiration for a Fun-Filled Weekend



Bachelor Party is a 1984 American sex comedy film directed by Neal Israel, written by Israel and Pat Proft, and starring Tom Hanks, Adrian Zmed, William Tepper, and Tawny Kitaen. The film revolves around a bachelor party that a group of men throw for their friend Rick Gassko (Hanks) on the eve of his wedding and whether he can remain faithful to his fiancée Debbie (Kitaen).


Party animal Rick Gassko (Tom Hanks), who makes his living as a Catholic-school bus driver, decides to settle down and marry his girlfriend Debbie Thompson (Tawny Kitaen). After learning the news of the engagement, Rick's shocked friends, led by Jay (Adrian Zmed), decide to throw him an epic bachelor party. The bride's wealthy, conservative parents are unhappy with her decision, and her father enlists the help of Debbie's ex-boyfriend Cole Whittier (Robert Prescott) to sabotage her relationship with Rick and win her back.




The Bachelor Party



While Debbie worries and goes off to a bridal shower thrown by her friends, Rick heads to the bachelor party, which takes place in a lavish, spacious hotel suite, and promises to remain faithful. Both parties start off on the wrong foot because of Cole's meddling. As the bachelor party starts to heat up, Debbie and the girls decide to get even with Rick and his friends by having a party of their own. Both parties eventually collide, leading to Debbie accusing Rick of infidelity.


The bachelor party becomes a wild, drunken orgy and the hotel room is trashed, which infuriates the hotel's frustrated manager (Kenneth Kimmins). Adding to the confusion is Rick's friend Brad, who has become despondent over the breakup of his marriage and botches several suicide attempts. When Brad tries to slit his wrists with an electric razor, Rick says, "Well.....at least your wrists will be smooth and kissable."


Rick convinces Debbie of his love and faithfulness just as the party is raided by the police. In the ensuing melee, Rick and Debbie become separated and Cole kidnaps Debbie, so Rick and his friends chase after them. The chase culminates in a showdown between Rick and Cole in a 36-screen movie theater, with a fist fight taking place in synchronization with a similar fight being shown in a 3D film projected behind them; the audience believes that the real fight is an extraordinary 3D effect. Rick wins the fight and is reunited with Debbie.


The idea for the film came from an actual bachelor party thrown by producer Ron Moler and a group of friends for fellow producer Bob Israel. Several members of the film's cast and crew were at that party when the idea began to take shape.[3]


Charlie Samson is a hard-working married bookkeeper in Manhattan, struggling to advance himself by attending night school to become an accountant. He has just learned his wife is pregnant with their first child, and worries whether he is ready for fatherhood. He and four co-workers throw a bachelor party for a fellow bookkeeper, Arnold Craig, who is about to get married. After watching explicit, short stag films at one member's apartment, they decide to go bar-hopping. Charlie is to be Arnold's best man.


Colleagues attending the party include the older married man, Walter, who has recently been diagnosed with asthma, and Eddie, a happy-go-lucky bachelor. The night becomes a turning point for all five men.


Charlie finds his loyalty to his wife tested during the evening, and he almost has an affair with a young woman he meets on the street heading to a Greenwich Village party. Charlie's young wife at home is also shocked to hear her visiting sister reveal her own husband's extra-marital affairs. Walter, in despair about his situation, wanders off during the evening.


Arnold becomes drunk and ambivalent about getting married, and he breaks off the wedding. He changes his mind after he sobers up and Charlie gives him a lecture about the benefits of married life, despite Charlie's having regretted his own marriage as the story began, and having gone to the party with the serious intention of committing adultery.


The 1957 film was directed by Delbert Mann, with Don Murray as Charlie, co-starring E. G. Marshall, Jack Warden and Carolyn Jones. Jones was nominated for the 1958 Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of a party girl who is actually very lonely. Mary Grant designed the film's costumes. Bosley Crowther wrote of the film, "Mr. Chayefsky in his writing and Delbert Mann in his direction of this film have made it delightfully amusing and compensating as it flows. For the most poignant revelations of emptiness and fear, they have provided hilarious explosions in the serio-comic vein."[5]


Back in the office, Doyle rants about the type of demon Richard is and their rituals must be dangerous. However, Angel reads about how the Ano-Movic demons gave up all the rituals and now just own a chain of restaurants. Doyle finally accepts that it wasn't his demon half that broke him up with Harry, it was his own personality flaws. Later, Doyle signs the divorce papers, then hands them over to Harry as Richard looks on. When she excuses herself to go make photocopies, Richard takes the opportunity to invite Doyle to his bachelor party for him to give his blessing to the new union. Meanwhile, in Angel's office, Harry invites Cordelia to her bachalorette party, explaining that Richard's family is very sweet and "into good vibes,' but Cordelia is the first woman she's met under the age of 300.


At the Straley home, the family assembles at the dining table for dinner where, passing around a bucket of chicken, they finalize plans for Richard's party. Although the beverage choices go without saying, there is some discussion about what food (Buffalo wings or foie gras) and activities (stripper vs stripper and charades) to provide that would best complement the ritual of eating the ex-husband's brains.


Richards family is surprised and troubled when Doyle brings Angel along to the bachelor party at the restaurant. Richard begins softening Doyle up, hoping to eventually elicit his blessing. Meanwhile, in the Straley home, Harry fills Cordelia in a little more about Doyle's past, alluding to, prior to their relationship, the qualities that first attracted her to Doyle. Cordelia is astounded to learn that Doyle got his teaching credentials at a young age and taught third grade while married to Harry. She is less surprised to hear that Harry met Doyle at a food bank. Cordelia points out that more like the Doyle she knows and then suddenly backtracks and realizes that Harry meant he was volunteering there. In the living room, Richard's mother calls out to them that it's time to play pornographic Pictionary.


At the bachelor party, Angel leaves Doyle unattended to investigate why Richard's relatives, Ben and Nick, are retreating into the back room. He overhears Uncle John performing some kind of blood rite and phones Cordelia to ask Harry for a translation of the Aratuscan incantation. As Angel hangs up and turns away from the phone, Nick incites a brawl. Four demons thrash Angel and toss him out a second story window, where he lies unconscious in the alley below.


Out in the alley, Angel regains consciousness and vamps up. Just as Richard is about to cut Doyle's skull open, Angel crashes into the restaurant, destroying the front door in the process. Richard's brother questions why Doyle brought a vampire to the bachelor party. Doyle smiles and nods while Richard's relatives mob Angel en masse. Richard turns to attack Angel with the ceremonial knife, but Angel kicks it out of his hand and punches him in the face. Doyle, after being pushed and rolled around in the box, finally morphs into his own demon form when the front latch pops open. He breaks out of the box and jumps in to join the fray.


After learning about all this planning, you might be thinking, "Ok, but who's paying for all of this?" Keep reading to find out who pays for what at a bachelor party, so you can keep the planning smooth and the drama to a minimum (we've also got you covered if you're looking for who pays for a bachelorette party).


"Bachelor Party" is 1984's version of the Annual Summer Food Fight Movie. With a movie like this, it doesn't really matter whether anyone actually throws mashed potatoes across the room; what matters is whether the movie is faithful to the spirit of Blotto Bluto in "National Lampoon's Animal House" when he yelled "Food fight!" and the madness began. The story this time is about this guy who decides to get married, and his friends decide to throw him a bachelor party. That's about it. The first half of the movie sets up the party and the second half of the movie is the party. Both halves of the movie are raunchy, chaotic, and quite shameless in aiming at the lowest possible level of taste, of course.


The bachelor in the movie is played by Tom Hanks. He was the guy from "Splash" who the mermaid fell in love with. I didn't think he was all that terrific in "Splash" -- I thought he was miscast, and they should have gone for somebody who was less of a conventional leading man -- but in "Bachelor Party" he's a lot more funny and I enjoyed the performance. He plays the kind of guy who goes over to his fiancée's house for dinner and drops table scraps onto the floor in case they have a dog. He has a great one-liner when he has to introduce himself to his fiancée's nerdy ex-boyfriend: "The name is Bond. James Bond." During the chaos of the party itself, one of his primary roles is simply to direct traffic.


The idea during the party, I think, is to approximate the spirit of one of those Jack Davis drawings in Mad magazine, where dozens of people are running around like crazy, and down in the corners you can see strange little figures doing inexplicable things. Most of the gags depend on varieties of public embarrassment and some of them are pretty funny, especially when the women decide to have their revenge by visiting a male go-go bar.


The trees are blooming; the birds are singing; the newspaper society sections are thick with marriage announcements. As the last soggy weeks of spring give way to the balmy days of summer, wedding season has arrived — and with it, an onslaught of bachelor parties. With an estimated 2.2 million weddings in the U.S. each year, providing for the groom's send-off is big business. Dozens of websites cater to the needs of the bachelor-party planner (typically, the groom's best man). I-Volution Inc., which owns two of the largest bachelor-party sites on the Web, says its websites get about 4 million visitors a year — 35% of whom focus on the Las Vegas packages. Just witness the success of the hit film The Hangover, whose tale of a prenuptial Las Vegas jaunt gone horribly awry has topped the box office for two straight weeks, pulling down more than $105.4 million. (See the top 10 non-emergency 911 calls.) 2ff7e9595c


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