Camp Nowhere (1994)

User Rating:

5.2/10   

Director:

Jonathan Prince

Writers (WGA):

Andrew Kurtzman (written by) &
Eliot Wald (written by)

Release Date:

26 August 1994 (USA)

Genre:

Family | Adventure | Comedy

Tagline:

No parents, no counselors, no rules.

Plot:

Morris "Mud" Himmel has a problem. His parents desperately want to send him away to summer camp. He hates going to summer camp...

Plot Keywords:

Summer Camp | Friend | Mud | First Love | Adolescent

Cast

John Putch	...	Neil Garbus
Peter Scolari	...	Donald Himmel
Romy Windsor	...	Nancy Himmel (as Romy Walthall)
Jonathan Jackson	...	Morris 'Mud' Himmel
Joshua Gibran Mayweather	...	Walter Welton (as Joshua G. Mayweather)
Andrew Keegan	...	Zack Dell
Devin Oatway	...	Tim
Kellen McLaughlin	...	J.D.
Brian Wagner	...	Lenny
Marnette Patterson	...	Trish Prescott
Melody Kay	...	Gaby Nowicki
Christopher Lloyd	...	Dennis Van Welker
M. Emmet Walsh	...	T.R. Polk
Ray Baker	...	Norris Prescott
Kate Mulgrew	...	Rachel Prescott

Runtime:

96 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Iceland:L | South Korea:All | USA:PG | Argentina:Atp

Filming Locations:

Golden Oak Ranch - 19802 Placerita Canyon Road, Newhall, California, USA

Company:

Hollywood Pictures

Trivia:

Jonathan Jackson's character wears a red shirt with the word "Lucky" on it in the movie. His character on "General Hospital" (1963) is named Lucky.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Zack is making the necklace with that one girl, the other girl comes in and stands behind him. Her sleeve is pulled over her right hand and not the left, yet when the screen switches to another shot, her sleeves are reversed, covering her left hand instead

Quotes:

Gaby: [on Dennis Van Welker] Last year, he tried to do 'Silence of the Lambs' as a musical.

Movie Connections:

References "Beavis and Butt-Head" (1993)

Soundtrack:

TIME WRAPS AROUND YOU

'The Sting' for Summer Camp.

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!