Troop Beverly Hills

Troop Beverly Hills is a 1989 adventure comedy film. Produced by Weintraub Entertainment Group and directed by Jeff Kanew, it starred Shelley Long, Craig T. Nelson, Betty Thomas, Mary Gross, Shelley Morrison, a host of young stars including Tori Spelling, Carla Gugino, Jenny Lewis, Emily Schulman, Ami Foster, and Kellie Martin, and numerous celebrities in cameo appearances as themselves. Phyllis Nefler is a Beverly Hills wife who is separated from her husband Fred, a well-off owner of a chain of auto shops. Fred feels Phyllis is a self-absorbed "shopaholic" who never follows through on her commitments. Phyllis decides to prove him wrong by applying to be the leader of her daughter Hannah's unruly, leaderless local troop of the Wilderness Girls (an allusion to the real Girl Scouts of the USA). Phyllis is severely lacking in the skills found in most troop leaders. She resolves to teach the girls how to survive in "the wilds of Beverly Hills, " and to that end customizes new merit badges...