Phat Beach

Phat Beach
Directed byDoug Ellin
Written byBen Morris
Brian E. O'Neal
Cleveland O'Neal III
Doug Ellin
Produced byCleveland O'Neal III
Eric Manes
Michael Schultz
Starring
CinematographyDave Perkal
James A. Lebovitz
Jürgen Baum
Edited byTucker Stilley
Jeremy Kasten
Richard Nord
Music byJoseph Williams
Distributed byLive Entertainment
Orion Pictures Corporation
Release date
  • August 2, 1996 (1996-08-02)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$100,000[1]
Box office$1.3 million[2]

Phat Beach is a 1996 American comedy film directed by Doug Ellin, which stars Jermaine 'Huggy' Hopkins, Coolio, Brian Hooks and Gregg Vance. The movie has been considered to be "one of the greatest (and perhaps only) hip-hop beach movies of all time."[3]

  1. ^ "Doug Ellin: From Hollywood pariah to Entourage". YouTube. June 28, 2017.
  2. ^ "Phat Beach". Box Office Mojo.
  3. ^ Pirnia, Garin (August 3, 2016). "The Oral History of 'Phat Beach'". Complex.