Troop Beverly Hills Anniversary Screening

By Lisa M on October 5th, 2009

Before Jenny Lee Lewis was a Rilo Kiley rockstar, before Tori Spelling was a 90210, Spelling’s troop, The Red Feathers, were busy trying to sabotage Lewis’s Troop Bevery Hills.

Welcome to 1989 and Welcome to Troop Beverly Hills, the film in which a Beverly Hills housewife, Shelly Long, decides to take over her daughter’s Girl Scout-esque group, The Wilderness Girls. Rather than teaching the girls of Troop Beverly Hills how to be stuck-up, mean girls, she attempts to teach them about friendship and life as they earn patches for material things instead of tying knots or camping.

For ladies twenty and older today, this movie taught us the value of staying in nice hotels, swanky shopping trips, and more importantly, the importance of sticking together. And for Erika Brooks Adickman, she found the lesson to be worthy of hosting an anniversary screening of the movie.

“As I watched with a friend who grew up thousands of miles from me, I noticed that we quoted the movie with the same fervor, laughed at the same intensity, and it hit me – we probably weren’t alone in our love for the movie,” Adickman stated.

Erika worked with a handful of friends to create a Mystery Science Theater 3000, Pop-Up Video-style way to commemorate the film. Her reverence and passion for such an event is evident by her hope that the movie is not recreated. ”It’s like someone recreating the Mona Lisa. Some things are just sacred.”

The anniversary screening is TONIGHT October 5, 2009, at CINESPACE in Hollywood. Tickets may be purchased at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/78418.