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Daniel Waters (written by)
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When a summer camp director gets injured, the diverse group of college freshmen counselors take charge and spice up the everyday routine of the camp. | add synopsis
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Profound meditation on the loss of sexual innocence disguised as a summer camp movie...got that?
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Brad Renfro | ... | Wichita |
 | Dominique Swain | ... | Wendy |
 | Keram Malicki-Sánchez | ... | Jasper |
| Emily Bergl | ... | Talia |
 | Jordan Bridges | ... | Adam |
 | Jaime King | ... | Pixel (as James King) |
 | Justin Long | ... | Donald |
 | Peter Stormare | ... | Oberon |
| Graham Frye | ... | Charlie The Cook |
| Ryan Adams | ... | Bad Boy Billy |
| Ashley Banks | ... | Nasty Natalie |
 | Monica Bugajski | ... | Millie |
| Trevor Christensen | ... | Wichitaesque Wes |
| Elizabeth Dray | ... | Hayley |
| Xavier Hernandez | ... | Upper Income Lawrence |
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Rated R for nonstop crude sexual content involving minors, and for language and drug use.
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94 min
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Iceland:L |
Germany:16 |
South Korea:15 |
UK:15 |
USA:R |
Portugal:M/12 |
Italy:VM14 |
Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) |
Canada:AA (Ontario) |
Australia:MA (cable rating)
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Continuity: At the end of the movie when Wendy misses the bus, it switches to the inside of the other bus and in the top left corner when they show Witchita on the bus, you can see Wendy standing at the back of the bus before she gets on at it all.
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Daniel Waters guaranteed himself a place in cinema history with his debut screenplay "Heathers", one of the sharpest, blackest and downright original films of the second half of the eighties. Yet in the meantime he has seemingly enjoyed his well-paid limbo in hackville, churning out scripts ranging from the what-was-he-thinking (yes "Hudson Hawk", we mean you) to the sublime (the second and best installment in the Batman franchise). Thus the phrase "Daniel Waters' directorial debut" immediately raises expectations, will it be a twisted and perverted return to his "Heathers" world view? The answer is yes.
The premise is as warped as one would expect - a black, and I mean black, satire on the banal summer camp genre, using it as a metaphor for the point in our lives when, as teenagers, our childhood innocence gives way to the disappointments and tribulation of adulthood. If this sounds pretentious that's because it is, wildly so, but one has to give Waters some credit for not simply churning out a "Heathers" clone ("Jawbreaker" did us that favor). And while the characters are nowhere near as nihilistic as in that film (more so they are skewered stereotypes), the film does, particularly in the second half, move into bleak territory. The film's primary saving grace, besides a typically biting screenplay from Waters, is his outstanding casting, notably Stormare, Swain, Renfro and, particularly, the underused Bergl, all of whom deliver fine performances but struggle with the main flaw in Waters' script, none of the characters are very likable. It's not a great film, in fact it is a very flawed one, but it is never anything but ambitious and frequently very funny. It also makes an interesting double bill with "Wet Hot American Summer", another off-the-wall satire on the genre released the same year. Let's just hope we don't have to wait so long for his next film.