Starhops is 1977 exploitation comedy film directed by Barbara Peeters, based on a script by Stephanie Rothman, writing under a pseudonym, and was edited by future Oscar winning screenwriter Steve Zaillian.

Three carhops team up to save their cash-strapped Venice Beach drive-in restaurant from the clutches of a greedy oil baron who wants the land it sits on.

Rothman says she saw the finished film and asked for her name to be taken off the credits as she felt "there was not an idea, a scene, a word, or even a comma left from my original script.

[5] Peeters had been diagnosed with terminal stage melanoma before filming and during the shoot was undergoing an experimental treatment program at UCLA.

[4] The Los Angeles Times called it "a good natured, fast and funny Horatio Alger tale... Peeters makes you care about these no-nonsense working women.