Dearborn Actor Featured in Disney's 'Teen Beach Movie'

The Disney Channel's latest flick, Teen Beach Movie, has a local connection to fans in Dearborn.

The film features Dearborn resident Garrett Clayton. Clayton has performed around the area, including most recently as the character Ryan Evans in High School Musical 2 On Stage.

Teen Beach Movie premiered this weekend to a record-breaking 8.4 million viewers. It was the No. 1 Disney Channel movie in more than four years in total viewers, and the No. 3 Disney Channel movie ever for tween viewers, behind only Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie and High School Musical 2.
Clayton stars as Tanner in the movie. Teen Beach Movie introduces confident surfer McKenzie and her carefree boyfriend Brady, a fan of the retro surf musical movie, Wet Side Story. On the morning of McKenzie's scheduled departure for boarding school, she and Brady catch one last epic wave which mysteriously carries them right into Wet Side Story, circa 1962, where they meet Seacat, Giggles, Rascal and Cheechee, among others.

Amidst the spontaneous song and dance, there's trouble in paradise -- it's bikers versus surfers for control of the local hangout, but Mack and Brady unwittingly interfere with the movie's star-crossed plot, one that would pair a surfer and a biker.