Superdad (1973)

A Southern California attorney (Bob Crane, HOGAN'S HEROES) is unhappy with the direction his teen aged daughter's (Kathleen Cody) life is taking. She seems more intent on hanging out at the beach goofing off with her friends than preparing for her future. So he sends her to a college in the San Francisco Bay Area to improve her prospects. This rather reactionary Walt Disney comedy seems aimed at the teen market and their parents rather than the usual 12 and under demographics. Since this is a Disney movie, all the teens are squeaky clean and their worst offence is "borrowing" an ambulance to take them to the beach! But when the wholesome blonde daughter goes off to a Bay Area college, the horror! ..... she falls in with hippies and goes on protest marches! Of course, dad and mom (lovely Barbara Rush) march off to Frisco in indignation. I had to laugh out loud when Crane goes to visit his daughter's hippie artist boyfriend (Joby Baker), the music gets all dark and ominous as he walks through a string of stoned dark and dirty hippies. Not to worry, as I said it's a Disney movie so everything ends happily with a teenage weeding with Cody married to squeaky clean Kurt Russell. Directed by Vincent McEveety (HERBIE GOES TO MONTE CARLO). With Bruno Kirby, Joe Flynn, Dick Van Patten, Ed Begley Jr., Steve Dunne, Naomi Stevens and as a beer guzzling, pool playing landlady, Judith Lowry.