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Director:
Danny Bilson
Writers:
Paul De Meo (written by) and
Danny Bilson (written by)
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Release Date:
13 May 1988 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Tagline:
What "Stripes" did to the army, what "Police Academy" did to law enforcement...these guys do to scouting! more
Plot:
Five former cub scouts have a reunion and go camping on the mountain they never conquered. High jinks... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
A guilty pleasure more (10 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Louie Anderson ... Louie Anderson
Richard Lewis ... Richard Lewis

Richard Belzer ... Richard 'Belz' Belzer
Franklyn Ajaye ... Franklyn Ajaye

Tim Thomerson ... Tim Thomerson

Brion James ... Glen Grunski
Biff Manard ... Mark Grunski

John Goodman ... Duke Earle

Ernie Hudson ... Dawson
Timothy Van Patten ... J.T.
Bunny Summers ... Louie's Mom

Carole Ita White ... Ginger Grunski (as Carol Ita White)
Garth Winsome ... Marsha Grunski
Dion Zamora ... Kid Louie
Joshua Horowitz ... Kid Richard
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for sex-related material including brief nudity, comic violence and some language.
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Runtime:
USA:86 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Certification:
UK:PG | USA:PG
Filming Locations:
Grand Teton National Park, Moose, Wyoming, USA

Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: When Tim is hammering on the tent stake, he breaks the handle of his hammer in half, it is a clean break. When they show him looking at the handle, it is broken to a point indicating it is not the same hammer. more
Quotes:
FBI Captain: You have to understand sir, we've got reports of Duke at the beach, Duke in the the desert, Duke at Disneyland!
Tim Thomerson: No, You don't understand, I've got Duke in my face, man!
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Movie Connections:
References Tammy and the Bachelor (1957) more

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3 out of 3 people found the following comment useful.
A guilty pleasure, 29 January 2005
3/10
Author: The Gryphon from West Hollywood, California

I saw this movie when it first came to the theaters in 1988 and though I knew it wasn't of award winning caliber...I kinda liked it. It tales the tale of 5 former cub scouts reuniting to take on the one task they never got to finish as kids - which is to climb Mt. Whitehead. Of course now the cub scouts are all grown up and have developed their personalities in a variety of ways, but none too differently than they were as children. Richard Lewis is still neurotic, Richard Belzer is still a playboy, Franklyn Ajaye is still sort of the Dear Abby of the group, and Tim Thomerson is still the surfer dude of the group. Of course the top billed star is Louie Anderson, a "true believer" in everything Cub Scout related. He still lives in the same house with his mother, still goes over the Cub Scout manual daily, is brave, reverent and clean, and is the one who reunites the others for one more grand adventure in Scouting. Compounding their task, however, is the Grunski brothers, two bullies drummed out of the Cub Scouts by the above mentioned. By coincidence they run into their old den and decide to harass them a bit, albeit harmlessly. Not so harmlessly is three escaped convicts, who think Pack 7 is from the FBI and are intent on wiping them out. All in all, the movie still has bits of charm. Observe Richard Lewis trying to get comfortable on a folding cot, for example, and you have a really funny bit going for you. Upon further review, the entire film needed more of that type of observational humor. It doesn't hold up well after all these years but still remains a guilty pleasure.

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