The Pirate Movie

The Pirate Movie is a 1982 musical and comedy film directed by Ken Annakin and starring Christopher Atkins and Kristy McNichol. The film is loosely based on Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Pirates of Penzance. The original music score is composed by Mike Brady and Peter Sullivan.

Mabel Stanley, an introverted girl who yearns for popularity attends a pirate festival in her seaside community in Australia along with about a dozen bikini-clad bombshells. The fesitval features a swordplay demonstration led by a curly haired hunk. After selecting the clumsy Mabel ("nominated" by one of the afforementioned bombshells) to participate in the act, the instructor invites her aboard his boat for a real ride on the high seas — at which point her catty acquaintances latch on for the trip. Sent to get hamburgers for the outing, Mabel's bikini-clad "friends" sabotage the outing by grabbing the guy, the boat and the burgers and sail off without her.

Intent on catching up and joining her "friends" and dream guy, Mabel rents a small sail boat (not intended for open ocean use) armed with only her trusty portable stereo and is thrown overboard.

Thus begins a fantasy in which the unconscious Mabel imagines herself in a real pirate adventure, complete with a dashing (and very familiar-looking curly haired) pirate, a pirate king with a bejeweled codpiece, a legion of his crusty shipmates, and dozens of unwed sisters who must rise to the altar before she can. In the film's ending, Mabel wakes up and gets rescued by the instructor, who assures her that he is not who she imagines him.