Trivia / Troop Beverly Hills

• Box Office Bomb: Budget, $18 million. Box office, $8.5 million.
• Creator Killer: One of a handful of 1988/1989 films that caused the Weintraub Entertainment Group to implode right out of the gates, and one of the movies that ended Coca-Cola's control over Columbia and caused their merger with Tristar and Sony.
• Star-Derailing Role: Although she had some success with The Brady Bunch a few years later, the box office failure of this movie pretty much ended Shelley Long's efforts to become a film star.
• Vindicated by History: Bombed in first-run, but became a fondly remembered cult classic thanks to cable and VHS (to the point that almost all of the young cast appeared on Entertainment Tonight for its 30th anniversary, in 2019).

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