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5.8/10 • 324

1979-06-281h 32m

Comedy

Are you ready for a good time?

Tripper is the head counselor at a budget summer camp called Camp Northstar. In truth, he's young at heart and only marginally more mature than the campers themselves. Tripper befriends Rudy, a loner camper who has trouble fitting in. As Tripper inspires his young charges to defeat rival Camp Mohawk in the annual Olympiad competition, Rudy plays matchmaker between Tripper and Roxanne, a female counselor at Northstar.

Directors
Ivan Reitman
Writters
Daniel Goldberg, Len Blum, Janis Allen, Harold Ramis
Editors
Daniel Goldberg, Len Blum, Janis Allen, Harold Ramis, Debra Karen

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  1. Bill Murray

    Bill Murray

    Tripper Harrison

  2. Harvey Atkin

    Harvey Atkin

    Morty

  3. Russ Banham

    Russ Banham

    Crockett

  4. Kristine DeBell

    Kristine DeBell

    A.L.

  5. Todd Hoffman

    Todd Hoffman

    Wheels

  6. Matt Craven

    Matt Craven

    Hardware

  7. Kate Lynch

    Kate Lynch

    Roxanne

  8. Sarah Torgov

    Sarah Torgov

    Candace

  9. Keith Knight

    Keith Knight

    Fink

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Wuchak

Oct 7, 2018

7/10

Amusing and harmless misadventures at summer camp with Bill Murray Bill Murray (who was 28 during shooting) stars as an eccentrically droll camp counselor at Camp North Star who “trains” CITs, counselors-in-training, as they oversee the hordes of kids and face challenges with teams from preppy Camp Mohawk. “Meatballs” (1979) is a fun and innocuous summer camp flick. It’s not great but it’s entertaining enough, although if I’m going to view a summer camp film I prefer the Friday the 13th movies (practically any of them), mainly because they feature superior women. Here, Cindy Girling as curvy blonde Wendy is by far the most alluring, although Sarah Torgov as Candace is decent. In light of the license plates, the camp is presumably located in upstate New York, but was shot in Camp White Pine, Haliburton, Ontario, which is only about 125 miles from the New York border. The movie runs 1 hour, 34 minutes. GRADE: B/B-

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$1,207,520.00
Revenue
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Keywords
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