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Release Date: 1982

Cast: Chuck McKinney, Maggie Kirkpatrick, Kristy McNichol, Ted Hamilton, Bill Kerr, Garry McDonald, Christopher Atkins

Categories: Movies, Adventure, World cinema, Action/Adventure, Comedy, Musical, Fantasy, Romantic drama, Romance Film, Family Film

The Pirate Movie is a 1982 musical and comedy film directed by Ken Annakin and starring Christopher Atkins and Kristy McNichol. The film is loosely based on Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Pirates of Penzance. The original music score is composed by Mike Brady and Peter Sullivan. The movie performed far below expectations when first released and is generally reviewed very poorly. Kristy McNichol plays Mabel Stanley, an introverted girl yearning for popularity in a seaside community in Australia. She attends a local pirate festival featuring a swordplay demonstration led by a... MORE

The Pirate Movie is a 1982 musical and comedy film directed by Ken Annakin and starring Christopher Atkins and Kristy McNichol. The film is loosely based on Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Pirates of Penzance. The original music score is composed by Mike Brady and Peter Sullivan. The movie performed far below expectations when first released and is generally reviewed very poorly. Kristy McNichol plays Mabel Stanley, an introverted girl yearning for popularity in a seaside community in Australia. She attends a local pirate festival featuring a swordplay demonstration led by a curly-haired instructor (Christopher Atkins), who then invites her for a ride on his boat. She is duped by her acquaintances into missing the launch, so she rents a small sailboat to give chase. A sudden storm throws her overboard, and she washes up on a beach. She subsequently dreams an adventure that takes place a century before. In this fantasy sequence, the swordplay instructor is now named Frederic, a young apprentice of the Pirates of Penzance, celebrating his twenty-first birthday on a pirate vessel. Frederic refuses an invitation from the Pirate King (Ted Hamilton), his adopted father, to become LESS