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''Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again'' (released on video as ''Archie: Return to Riverdale'' in the United States and ''Archie's Weekend Reunion'' in Australia) was a live-action television movie based on comic book characters published by Archie Comics. It was produced by DiC and premiered on ''NBC Sunday Night at the Movies'' in 1990. The concept behind the movie was to combine the long-standing familiarity of Archie and the gang from the comics with adult issues. In this sense, it can be seen as being similar to other "updates" of family-friendly concepts for television such as ''The Bradys''. ==Plot== Archie Andrews, fifteen years after graduating from Riverdale High, has become a successful lawyer and is preparing to marry his fiancée, Pam, and move to "the big city." Before doing that, however, he returns home to Riverdale for his high school reunion. Archie and company are all now in their early thirties, with the trials and tribulations one might expect to have happened to such a group over the years: * Betty, a grade school teacher, is constantly bossed around by her crummy boyfriend, Robert. * Veronica, having lived in France since graduation, has been married (and divorced) four times. * Jughead, now a psychiatrist, is also a divorcé with a son, Jordan. Jughead carries emotional baggage that manifests itself in a terrible fear of women. (A running gag in the movie is Jughead's desperation to avoid seeing Big Ethel during his visit to Riverdale.) This is played for laughs at the end when at the reunion it turns out that Big Ethel is no longer the gangly, awkward teenager she once was but is now a striking beauty. * Moose and Midge have gotten married and become chiropractors. They also have a son, Max, who hits it off with Jordan. * Reggie is a gym owner. When Archie sees Betty and Veronica for the first time in fifteen years, all his old feelings for them come flooding back, threatening his engagement—and it doesn't help that the girls renew their pursuit of Archie, heedless of the fact that he has a fiancée. Meanwhile, Archie also tries to keep Reggie, helped along by an uncharacteristically menacing Mr. Lodge, from evicting Pop Tate from his soda shop. Archie ultimately saves the Chock'lit Shoppe, though he loses Pam in the bargain, and decides to stay in Riverdale. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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