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A bachelor party (also
called a stag party, stag night (UK, Ireland and Canada), bulls party (South Africa) or bucks party (Australia)) is a party held for a bachelor shortly before he enters marriage, to make the most of his final opportunity to engage in activities a new wife might not approve of, or merely to spend time bonding with his male friends (often in his wedding party afterwards).
A stag party may involve activities beyond the usual party and social gathering ingredients (often drinking alcohol and gambling), such as going to a strip club, hiring a female stripper and in some traditions more hazing-like tests and pranks at the future groom's expense, which shows the whole thing is also a rite of passage from bachelorhood (associated with an adolescent lifestyle, often in the common past of most participants, e.g. in their student years) to (more
'responsible') marital life.
The task of organising a stag party is often traditionally assigned to a male sibling of the bachelor or to the best man; otherwise any (close and/or reputedly party-minded) male friend will organize it.
Stag parties have also been the subject of many movies, especially comedies.
The tradition is thought
to have originated with a bachelor dinner that was traditional in ancient Sparta
Bachelor
(Stag) Party (film)
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Tagline: "Shocking, Shameless, Sinful, Wicked. And the party hasn't even started."
"A man's tradition
every woman should know about."
Bachelor Party is a 1984 comedy film starring Tom Hanks, Tawny Kitaen, Adrian Zmed, Robert Prescott, and Deborah Harmon.
The plot involves
party-animal Rick (Hanks) deciding to settle down and marry his girlfriend Debbie (Kitaen) and his friends throwing him one
final debauchery-laden bash. Debbie suspects Rick of future cheating on her at the bash and, with the help of his friends'
spouses, hatches a plan to catch him in the act.
A notorious scene
in the film involves a quaalude-popping, cocaine-snorting donkey who dies of a drug overdose.
Production
In 1981, Gary Grossman threw a bachelor party for his friend Bob Israel. Inspired by the occasion, Israel and fellow advertising specialist Ron Moler decided to produce
a comedy about the ritual. As first-time producers, however, they needed to secure financial backing for the film. Normally,
this would be accomplished by presenting potential backers a finished script. For Bachelor Party, Israel and Moler instead
created a mock ad campaign that so impressed Twin Continental Films that they provided the producers with the necessary funds
to develop the project. Israel brought in his brother Neal to direct, and together they worked out a storyline, that Neal
and Pat Proft expanded into a final script. Realizing the project’s commercial potential, executive
producer Joe Roth sent the screenplay - accompanied by the poster campaign - to 20th Century Fox, who agreed to distribute the film upon its completion.
Filming of Bachelor
Party began on August 15, 1983, and production was completed on November 11, 1983. Two days into production, filming was suspended and Bachelor Party went on hiatus for one month
while the filmmakers recast the parts. Production resumed in September with the new cast. The following actors were replaced:
Trivia
- The
restaurant where Ryko works is “A Drinking and Gathering Place”, according to the decal on the outside window.
The name of the restaurant is obscured.
- The
pin-ups on Rick and Debbie’s refrigerator are drawings of Flintstones characters.
- The
movie Brad is watching on T.V. in the hotel room is The Little Princess, a 1939 drama starring Shirley Temple.
- Rosanne
Katon (Darlene, one of the “twins of pleasure”) was a centerfold in the September 1978 issue of Playboy magazine.
- The
husband of the honeymoon couple is screenwriter Pat Proft.
- The
space battle scenes on the movie screen (where Rick fights Cole) are from the 1980 movie Battle Beyond the Stars.
- The
producers seriously considered the then unknown Jim Carrey, Tim Robbins and Howie Mandel for the role of Rick Gassko, and Julia Louis-Dreyfuss and Linda Hamilton for the role of Debbie Thompson.
Locations
• St. Gabriel's
Catholic School (shown in the opening scene of the film) is really John Marshall High School, located at 3939 Tracy Street
in Los Angeles.
Box office
The U.S. theatrical
gross was $38,435,947, and U.S. video rentals were last calculated at $19,070,000.
Bachelor Party in pop culture
See also
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