Shag (1989)

I’ve wanted to see this for a rather long time. It’s got the great cast of Annabeth Gish, Bridget Fonda, Phoebe Cates, and Page Hannah as four young women on a road trip to Myrtle Beach, a last girls’ vacation before one of them gets married. It does have the unfortunate usage of Confederate imagery popping up on random occasions and the confounding casting of Gish as fat and undesirable, but for the most part, it’s a fun beach flick of four gals coming to terms with the challenges of figuring themselves out and growing apart as they move on to adulthood. It doesn’t always feel like the film is set in the 1960s, but it does at least have a soundtrack to support the conceit.