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1985 1h 37m Not Rated. 6.0 (1.6K) Rate. TV Movie. Two teenage summer camp counselors struggle with their younger campers, providing a variety of humorous situations and romantic encounters. Director Larry Elikann Stars Michael J. Fox Nancy McKeon Caren Kaye. 9. SpaceCamp. 1986 1h 47m PG.
- 10 Indian Summer
- 9 Moonrise Kingdom
- 8 Camp
- 7 Jesus Camp
- 6 Ernest Goes to Camp
- 5 Little Darlings
- 4 Crip Camp
- 3 The Parent Trap
- 2 Friday The 13th
- 1 Wet Hot American Summer
Starting right away with the nostalgia, Indian Summer is all about summer camp nostalgia. Alan Arkin is about to retire as the longtime director of a summer camp, and invites a gaggle of his favorite former campers back for a reunion. The ex-campers include Diane Lane, Bill Paxton, Kevin Pollak, Elizabeth Perkins, and even Sam Raimi (a childhood fr...
Summer camp is not for everyone, and it’s definitely not for Sam, or at least not after he meets Suzy, who lives with her family on the same New England island as Camp Ivanhoe. They become pen pals and work out an elaborate plan over the course of a year, which will come to fruition when Sam is back on the island for another summer at Camp Ivanhoe....
This is the movie for the kids that did theater and show choir and would have loved nothing more than a whole summer doing just that. Based on stories from a real performing arts camp called Stagedoor Manor, and is a place where a bunch of kids deemed nerdy, angsty misfits at school can sing and dance and act and just generally be themselves (inclu...
This documentary is a very, very different take on summer camp. As the evangelical right has risen to be a huge force in America, you might find yourself wondering what the kids are like, and how they got that way. This will give you a pretty good idea. The camp is located in North Dakota, and the campers are largely homeschooled kids from conserva...
Jim Varney rosefrom a humble acting career playing the bumbling Ernest P. Worrell in a series of local Nashville tv spots, saying goofy things to his neighbor Vern, who is never seen on camera. He managed to parlay this into a Saturday morning sketch show that won him a Daytime Emmy, and a series of Ernest films followed. Ernest Goes to Camp sees o...
This '80s cult classic starred Tatum O’Neal, Kristy McNichol, Armand Assante, and Matt Dillon, and features the somewhat scandalous premise of a bunch of Atlanta teen girls heading to summer camp, two of them with the express purpose of losing their virginity. This becomes a camp obsession, with bets being placed on whether Angel or Ferris will be ...
Barack and Michelle Obama were executive producers for this Oscar-nominated documentary about a New York camp for teenagers with disabilities. The camp was started in 1951, and a number of former campers have become activists in the disability rights movement. The documentary picks up in the '70s, when the camp was highly influenced by an unstructu...
The last thing we want is to be divisive, so we are not going to play favorites between the 1961 and 1998 versions of The Parent Trap, both classics in their own right. Both films had legions of little girls scanning their camp cabins to see if maybe there wasn’t another camper who looked exactly like them. Hayley Mills did double duty as Susan and...
It’s the movie that spawned a franchise (and a thousand tropes) when two counselors at Camp SIlver Lake in the '50s sneak out to have sex, but get murdered by an unknown killer. Fast-forward twenty years and a young counselor is on her way to the newly opened camp, warned by a truck driver that a kid drowned there years ago. The young counselor (na...
Now take every bit of camp memorabilia from the previous films, add a bunch of comedians, and you have the best camp movie there is. Michael Showalter, Janeane Garofalo, Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Ian Black, and more, are a bunch of horny camp counselors, not all that concerned with their charges on the last day of camp in 1981. There’s a ...
- Molly Pohlig
- Meatballs. Bill Murray, Chris Makepeace, Kate Lynch. 159 votes. A hilarious and entertaining film, Meatballs follows the comedic misadventures of a group of camp counselors and their eccentric manager at a summer camp.
- Friday the 13th. Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby. 121 votes. Arguably one of the most famous horror franchises in film history, Friday the 13th introduces viewers to the terror that lurks beneath the seemingly innocent Camp Crystal Lake.
- Wet Hot American Summer. Janeane Garofalo, David Hyde Pierce, Michael Showalter. 132 votes. Set in 1981, Wet Hot American Summer is a hilarious satire of traditional summer camp movies.
- Heavyweights. Tom McGowan, Aaron Schwartz, Ben Stiller. 127 votes. Childhood obesity is given a comedic twist in Heavy Weights, making it both a laugh riot and an underrated gem.
- Casey Suglia
- A Week Away: A Musical. Troubled teen Will, is faced with a choice — get sent to juvenile detention or go to a Christian summer camp. The answer is an obvious one, and while at summer camp, Will learns about the powers of faith and kindness with the help of music and some new friends.
- Bibi & Tina: Girls vs. Boys. In this international film from Germany, Bibi and her friends are pitted against the boys in a treasure hunt at summer camp.
- Camp Cool Kids. Zach and his little brother Spence could not be more of the opposite from each other. And when they find themselves on opposing teams at their camp games, it’s up to Zach to make new friends, overcome his fears, and stand up to the bullies that stand in his way on his path to victory.
- Camp Nowhere. Sick of their usual summer plans, a group of kids convince a former teacher to pose as a counselor for a fake camp where they can roam free.
May 31, 2024 · summer camp. camp movies. wet hot american summer. More. Show 16 Comments. Summer-camp movies offer all the fun of staying up late in your bunk, without the bug bites. We ranked the 17 best, from ...
Jul 14, 2023 · Camp Nowhere is an inventive comedy film that remains one of the best summer camp movies because it sees the kids taking over. Starring Christopher Lloyd as the eccentric ex-drama teacher Dennis Van Welker, Camp Nowhere follows preteen Morris "Mud" (Jonathan Jackson), who dreads returning to his boring summer camp.
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Jul 21, 2023 · Meatballs (1979) You have to start any list of the best summer camp movies with the Bill Murray classic, Meatballs. It not only launched Murray’s career as a film star, but also marked the first ...
