Lifeguards Can’t Jump

Written by Lloyd J. Schwartz


Mitch and Garner go undercover as a two-on-two street basketball team to solve a young athlete’s murder, while CJ becomes involved with an amorous, honeymooning Midwestern tourist.


When former prep basketball standout Tito Washburn is found dead on Venice Beach, the apparent victim of an accidental drowning, his old friend Garner suspects foul play. Ahunch leads him to the Venice Basketball courts where street hoopsters and some unscrupulous gamblers compete for high stakes. Attempting an unorthodox undercover operation, Garner recruits the tall, but not particularly basketball-gifted, Mitch Buchannon. However, as they play various opponents and uncover the people involved with Tito’s murder, they find themselves on an incredible win streak under the hoops.
Gathering evidence against the murderers my prove fatal for Garner and Mitch as they go head-to-head in a final basketball game with deadly stakes!


Meanwhile, mild-mannered Midwestern newlyweds Dennis and Arlene Kosowski have come to Los Angeles for a romantic honeymoon. But when Arlene’s sunburn confines her to the hotel room, Dennis falls for an unsuspecting CJ, and gets involved in a comedic love triangle with the breathtaking lifeguard. A comedy of errors ensues as Dennis wines and dines CJ while juggling the attention between his unsuspecting wife and the innocent lifeguard.

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