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John Putch | ... | ||
Peter Scolari | ... | ||
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Romy Windsor | ... |
Nancy Himmel
(as Romy Walthall)
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Jonathan Jackson | ... | ||
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Joshua Gibran Mayweather | ... |
Walter Welton
(as Joshua G. Mayweather)
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Andrew Keegan | ... | ||
Devin Oatway | ... | ||
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Kellen McLaughlin | ... | |
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Brian Wagner | ... | |
Marnette Patterson | ... | ||
Melody Kay | ... | ||
Christopher Lloyd | ... | ||
M. Emmet Walsh | ... |
T.R. Polk
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Ray Baker | ... |
Norris Prescott
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Kate Mulgrew | ... |
Rachel Prescott
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Morris "Mud" Himmel has a problem. His parents desperately want to send him away to summer camp. He hates going to summer camp, and would do anything to get out of it. Talking to his friends, he realises that they are all facing the same sentence: a boring summer camp. Together with his friends, he hatches a plan to trick all the parents into sending them to a camp of his own design, which would actually be a parent-free paradise. Blackmailing former drama teacher Dennis Van Welker into helping, they must convince the parents that the camp is genuine, and that they aren't allowed to visit... Written by Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au>
In true Paul Newman/Robert Redford fashion, this film screams fun. With a unique cast, led by the ever eccentric Christopher Lloyd, a former drama teacher leads a team of kids to a summer camp free of work, parents or any authoritative counselors. He is encouraged by four bright but disgruntled youngsters who dread the thought of spending summers being trained to live up up to their parents expectations: fat camp, acting camp, military school and computer camp. But the shenanigans do not come into classic play until the kids' parents insist on visiting them at their "educational" camp. This joins ' The Goonies' and 'Willow' and one of the many films that my own kids will grow up watching...but I think if you are watching this film...like me, you are far too much of a child yourself to be thinking about actually having children!