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AIRED: 7/31/05

Nell Kilvert arrives in the beach town of Hubbard’s Point to try and locate her recently deceased mother’s childhood friends.

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Jack and Nell go to Hubbard's Point for the summer, where Nell's recently deceased-mother spent her summers with 2 friends (they were the Beach Girls). Nell gets to know more about her mom through her old friends and we are introduced to the locals. Well-moreless

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By seamanq, Aug 08, 2005

Jack (Rob Lowe) and Nell (Chelsea Hobbs) playing father and daughter spend the summer at Hubbard's Point, where her mother spent her summers as a child with her two best friends Stevie (Julia Ormond) and Aunt Maddie (Katherine Ashby). Collectively the three were the "Beach Girls".

Although Stevie has been long out of touch she has valuable things to tell Nell about her mom, and the two enjoy time spent together.

We meet other locals such as Skye (Kristen Hager), a young lady who is determined to remain celibate, Cooper (Chris Carmack) who is determined to help her not be celibate, Clare (Kristin Adams) one of the modern-day Beach Girls who works at her mom's restaurant, Jeremy (Christian Gallinger), who is sweet on Nell and Billy (Wes Brown) who is a Lifeguard, and recruits Nell to join the Lifeguard training program.

In this episode it is revealed (at the very end of the episode) that Aunt Maddie has problems with alcohol and was driving the car when Nell's mom is killed. For that reason she is "dead" as far as Jack is concerned.

This creates friction between Jack and Nell, because she is trying to get to know more about her mom from Aunt Maddie and Stevie, and feels that the things she can find out about her mom are being "taken away" from her. Her father replies "I lost her too."

Adding flames to the friction between Jack and Nell is his new girlfriend Francesca (Janaya Stephens) who he works with. She is always chirpy and always rubs Nell the wrong way.

Late in the episode, Jack discovers his deceased wife had a secret bank account with $20,000 in it and a secret post office box. Francesca retorts "How well did you know your wife, Jack?"

All these things and more to be developed in Episode 2.moreless
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The book itself was an awesome read, but the writers, who wrote the script probably did the best possible to transform it into a TV Movie.

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By BryanDugan, Aug 07, 2005

The book itself was an awesome read, but the writers, who wrote the script probably did the best possible to transform it into a TV Movie. The transformation from book to TV is sometimes a pretty hard road. Take "A Walk To Remember" as an example. The book was on the bestsellers list, and made for a good read, but the movie compared to the book was way better.

I liked how they went from story to story, letting us see how everyone in the story was connected to each other.

I hope to see more of the storyline between Stevie and Jack.moreless
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Pretty great beginning.

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By RoxieVelma, Aug 07, 2005

I actually had never heard of this book but tuned in to see it because of Rob Lowe and Julia Ormand. This show is pretty interesting and I can see now why the book by Luanne Rice was so popular. It makes me want to go and read it now, but I'll have to wait until all the episodes are over with because I don't wanna ruin the show! I'm glad to see Rob Lowe doing something good for a change. He hasn't done anything this good since The West Wing in my opinion. The characters are great and seem like people I can relate to. I especially love Julia's character. So far so good can't wait to tune in for the rest!moreless
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Rob Lowe	Jack
Chelsea Hobbs	Nell
Adam MacDonald	Marty
Kristin Adams	Clare
Kristin Hager	Skye
Tyler Gallagher	Marsh

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- Stevie(to Jack): Let's just pretend I was never here. Shouldn't be too hard, you always were the master of denial.
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- Nell:I told her about you and Aunt Maddie
  Jack: What are you, the gossip channel?
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- Nell: I used to want to be a veterinarian.
  Stevie: And now?
  Nell: I'll settle for world domination.
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- Stevie: Emma?
  Nell: I'm her daughter, Nell.
  Stevie: You look just like her. I guess you hear that a lot.
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- Lifetime re-aired the complete five episodes of "Beach Girls" a year later on Saturday, May 27th 2006.
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- This episode was the highest-rated program on ad-supported cable, and the episode also won its 8-10 p.m. time slot among all key female demos, including teens 12-17.
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- Aired as a Two-Hour Episode on Lifetime.
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- Broke Lifetime Ratings Records by Scoring 3.6 Million Viewers in its Premiere, surpassing "MISSINGS" 3.3 Million.
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- Theme song is Dreams by the Cranberries.
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- Was originally set to premiere July 25th.
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- Series Premiere.
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- Stevie: Nice performance, very Atticus Finch.
  
  Jack is a lawyer, as is Atticus Finch in the award-winning book To Kill A Mockingbird
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