OK, I better explain this first!!! hehehe A few years ago, my best friend and I were totally into making "movies". It was lots of fun, we actually made 5 two-hour movies (even though we are NOT the greatest actors, haha)! Of course we HAD to make a gymnastics one. It's kinda of a "take-off" or "spoof", I guess you would call it, of Little Girls in Pretty Boxes. Overly dramatic, of course, LOL! So, we were making fun of LGIPB, pretending to be the Sweet Valley Twins, and also had made-up "actor names". I showed this movie to my teammates one time and they got a big kick out of it, so I thought the visitors to my site might like to see it!!! hehehe Here it is!
**note--all the gymnastics was filmed in my backyard, which is why there are trees in our "gym" LOL We actually had some pretty cool "trick photography" :-)**
***another note--music on events other than floor is there for dramatic effect.
Vault = mini-tramp as "springboard" up onto big tramp
Bars = swinging on the clothesline pole and and skills on tramp
Beam = low beam and skills on tramp
Floor = tramp
VIDEOS
Trailer--I just made this trailer about a year ago, it's actually pretty cool. :-) Beginning credits--the theme song for this movie was "Crazy Nights" by Kiss, for reasons that would take waaaaay too long to explain, haha! SCENE 1 SCENE 2 & 3 SCENE 4 SCENE 5 SCENE 6 SCENE 9 SCENE 10 SCENE 11 SCENE 13 SCENE 14 SCENE 15 SCENE 16 SCENE 17 SCENE 18 SCENE 19 SCENE 20 SCENE 21 SCENE 22 SCENE 23 SCENE 24 SCENE 25 SCENE 26 SCENE 27 SCENE 2 SCENE 29 SCENE 30 SCENE 31 SCENE 32 SCENE 33 SCENE 34 SCENE 35 SCENE 36 SCENE 37 SCENE 38 SCENE 39 SCENE 40 SCENE 41 SCENE 42 SCENE 43 SCENE 44 CAST All video is İH & M Productions 1997. Main characters are based and named after The Sweet Valley Twins (LOL), no copyright infringement intended. All other names, listed as "character" or "actor", are entirely made up, and every character in the movie was played by myself or my best friend Michelle (using various wigs, glasses, and accents ;-). Also, though we were sort of making fun of LGIPB in this movie, it was all in fun and we were not trying to be mean. Remember, we were 15 years old when this was made, hehehe. And (obviously), the URL in the picture above is FAKE.
Floor routines 8.88 MB
Vaults 5.07 MB
Bar routines 5.44 MB
Beam routines 8.05 MB
Exhibition floor routine & awards ceremony 6.38 MB
"Train With Me/The Olympics?" -- these scenes are straight out of LGIPB, haha 3.60 MB
"Once in A Lifetime Opportunity" -- really, really bad acting here... 2.04 MB
"The Try-out" -- again, this scene is straight out of LGIPB 2.90 MB
Stretching 1.53 MB
Elizabeth training on bars 1.78 MB
Jessica on bars, both vaulting 5.09 MB
Training on beam 7.18 MB
"We Get to Go!" 2.03 MB
"Good-bye, Gail" 2.03 MB
"Packing"--the twins have a conversation with their brother before they move to train at the new gym. And yes, we sound very very country, lol! 2.66 MB
"What A Dump!" -- their new apartment. 2.77 MB
"The Mothers"- - very funny running sequence at the beginning of this clip, then an introduction to the mothers at the new gym, hahaha. 2.79 MB
"Teams A & B" -- Vault training. 5.74 MB
Beam training 4.91 MB
Floor training 3.26 MB
"In the Locker Room" -- the twins talk to Jenny after practice (and why does Jenny have her shorts pulled up so high? hahaha). 1.67 MB
"Chatting with Mom" -- Mrs. Wakefield discusses practice with the twins, in the car on the way home. 2.46 MB
"Don't Tell Mom" -- will Liz & Jess sneak pain pills? 1.94 MB
"New Skills" -- working on new skills...and missing them. For Jessica, it's a 2-foot layout on beam, and for Elizabeth, it's a Tkatchev. 7.23 MB
"Bedtime" -- the twins talk before going to bed and Mrs. Wakefield finds something in their dresser... 3.48 MB
"Argument at Breakfast" -- Mrs. Wakefield confronts the twins about the pills. 3.34 MB
"Talking with the Parks" -- Jenny does a tv interview, then her mother has a talk with Mrs. Wakefield. 3.08 MB
"Vault Practice" -- the whole team struggles with vault, except for the twins. 8.34 MB
"Jenny's Crash" -- the team trains on bars. 3.06 MB
"Team Pictures" -- it's team picture day, lol. 3.38 MB
"A Bike Ride" -- Elizabeth & Jessica bump into their old coach while bike-riding. 3.05 MB
"Watching Their Weight" -- the twins try to diet, upsetting Mrs. Wakefield. 4.53 MB
"Liz's Injury" -- Elizabeth gets injured while practicing beam. 2.20 MB
"Will You Be Ready?" -- Steve checks out Elizabeth's wrist. 1.97 MB
"In the Pool" -- The twins talk while in their pool. 2.21 MB
"Moms at K-Mart" -- Mrs. Wakefield's runs into Allison's mom at K-Mart (actually filmed at K-Mart, lol). 2.03 MB
"Hair" -- The twins get new hairstyles. *filmed at a real salon where my friend got a real haircut. 2.21 MB
"Picking the Team" -- Steve has a small competition between his gymnasts. Elizabeth's floor routine. 3.80 MB
Jessica's floor routine 3.34 MB
Monica's floor routine (she almost loses her "hair" during this, lol) 3.67 MB
Jessica's & Monica's bar routines 6.65 MB
"Jessica's Injury" -- Jessica injures herself while training on beam. 2.62 MB
"Nerves" -- The twins talk about the meet (the sound is very low in this). 2.00 MB
"The Morning of the Meet" -- The twins & Mrs. Wakefield "drive" to the meet, where they meet up with brother Steven (hahaha) and their old coach Gail. 4.34 MB
"The Warm-up" -- A short warm-up for the meet. 2.51 MB
"The Big Meet" -- March-out & Jessica's bar routine. 3.80 MB
Jenny's floor routine 3.89 MB
Allison's beam routine 4.09 MB
Elizabeth's vaults 2.15 MB
Jenny's vaults 1.78 MB
Jessica's beam routine 3.01 MB
Elizabeth's bar routine 2.59 MB
Allison's floor routine 3.23 MB
Elizabeth's beam routine 3.65 MB
Allison's vaults 1.42 MB
Jenny's bar routine 1.44 MB
Jessica's floor routine 3.41 MB
Allison's bar routine 1.79 MB
Elizabeth's floor routine 3.21 MB
Jessica's vaults 1.72 MB
Jenny's beam routine 3.36 MB
"No More Gymnastics" -- The twins visit Jenny in the hospital. 3.30 MB
"Family Fight" -- The Wakefield family argue (Mr. Wakefield is only a voice, his face is never seen, lol). 2.97 MB
"Too Difficult" -- Back in the gym, Stete wants the twins to practice double fronts and double layouts. 4.62 MB
Fighting with Mrs. Wakefield 2.36 MB
"Not My Concern" -- Mrs. Wakefield & Coach Steve discuss the twins. 3.16 MB
"We're Leaving" -- Mrs. Wakefield insists that they move back to Sweet Valley. 4.67 MB
"Back Home" -- The twins unhappily return home. 3.29 MB
"Happy Ending" -- Several months later, Elizabeth & Jessica happily compete for Gail's gym. 10.0 MB
Elizabeth Wakefield: Lilia Simmons (aka Heather)
Jessica Wakefield: Dominique Simmons (aka Michelle)
Jenny Parks: Kelly Thompson (aka Heather)
Allison Lamb: Emily Schafer (aka Michelle)
Monica Eveland: Alexandra Pike (aka Heather)
Steve Hawkins: Benny Holfnagler (aka Michelle/sometimes Heather)
Mrs. Wakefield: Kathy Phillips (aka Heather/sometimes Michelle)
Steven Wakefield: (aka Michelle)
