Shag (also known as Shag: The Movie) is a 1988 teen romantic comedy film directed by Zelda Barron and starring Phoebe Cates, Scott Coffey, Bridget Fonda, Annabeth Gish, Page Hannah, Robert Rusler, and Tyrone Power Jr.

[1][4] Four teenage girlfriends escape their middle-class parents for a few days in 1963 for an adventure in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

The big spring festival promises a dance contest, beer blasts, and many cute boys.

Melaina begins practicing her beauty pageant dance routine, but when Luanne walks in on her, she convinces her to instead recite lines from Gone with the Wind.

She loses to Suette because Luanne encouraged her to be a more modest contestant; she wins doing a dance routine in a bikini.

Melaina gets Luanne to mention her senator father’s name in inviting Jimmy Valentine to the house for a small party, which gets out of control.

Carson tells Harley she can't marry him because she's in love with Buzz, and Luanne blurts out they had sex in the yacht.

However, legal copyright infringements led to VHS re-releases on June 3, 1997 and January 13, 1998 that features different songs, or no music at all in some scenes compared to the original theatrical release.

[8] Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote that Shag, "a teen-age nostalgia film set in the summer of 1963, suggests a frothy female answer to Barry Levinson's Diner, with a Southern twist.

"[12][13] Margaret Moser, also of the Chronicle, wrote a retrospective review stating "the cast and acting raise this ultimately charming film from sleeper to cult status without stooping to pointless sex or nudity.

"[14] Sheila Benson of the Los Angeles Times gave a positive review, writing "Named for a particularly Southern dance craze, Shag is an artfully directed, frequently funny and carefully observed story" and praised the dance sequence, which was choreographed by Kenny Ortega.