Shag (also known as Shag: The Movie) is a 1989 American comedy film starring Bridget Fonda, Phoebe Cates, Annabeth Gish, Page Hannah, Jeff Yagher and Scott Coffey. Directed by Zelda Barron, the film features Carolina shag dancing and was produced in cooperation with the South Carolina Film Commission. The soundtrack album was on Sire/Warner Bros. Records. Plot 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. Carson McBride is engaged to Harley, the boring son of a business man; Melaina Buller is a restless preacher's daughter; Luanne Clatterbuck is a conservative senator's daughter; and Caroline Carmichael, "Pudge", is self-conscious about her weight. They stay at Luanne's parents vacation home. At a club, Melaina hooks up and leaves with a guy in his car. She then gets attacked and covered in shaving cream by two local girls. Earlier overhearing them talking about a beauty contest, she said she'd enter and beat them. Carson and Pudge hang out with Buzz and Chip, while Luanne is trying to escape another. At the car-hop, Buzz flirts with Carson, ignoring that she's engaged and she is drawn to him. Pudge offers to teach Chip the shag, and he grudgingly relents. When the girls get home, Carson calls her fiancé, telling him she's at Myrtle Beach, but not that she went out with another. Chip arrives when Pudge is not ready, but she is pleased and they begin the dance lessons. Buzz wakes Carson dangling a fly fishing lure in her face, asking her to go fishing. She insists nothing will ever happen between them, he agrees, saying they should just be friends. Melaina begins practicing her beauty pageant dance routine, but when Luanne walks in on her, she convinces her into giving a speech from Gone with the Wind instead. Fishing, Carson and Buzz begin to get closer, while Chip and Pudge ask each other questions about sex and relationships. Buzz doesn't believe Carson will marry Harley, and makes her confront her beliefs and rules. The girls later watch Melaina in the contest. She loses to Suette because Luanne made her be a more modest contestant; she wins doing a dance routine in a bikini. Harley arrives during the contest so Carson hides, while Luanne seeks him out. Melaina