Camp Nowhere (1994)

Morris "Mud" Himmel has a problem. His parents desperately want to send him away to summer camp. He hates going to summer camp, and would do anything to get out of it. Talking to his ... See full summary »

Director:

Jonathan Prince

Writers:

Andrew Kurtzman, Eliot Wald

Stars:

Jonathan Jackson, Christopher Lloyd, John Putch

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
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

Storyline

Morris "Mud" Himmel has a problem. His parents desperately want to send him away to summer camp. He hates going to summer camp, and would do anything to get out of it. Talking to his friends, he realises that they are all facing the same sentence: a boring summer camp. Together with his friends, he hatches a plan to trick all the parents into sending them to a camp of his own design, which would actually be a parent-free paradise. Blackmailing former drama teacher Dennis Van Welker into helping, they must convince the parents that the camp is genuine, and that they aren't allowed to visit...

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Plot Keywords:

riding a bicycle into water | show of hands | wad of money | letter writing | teenage angst | 

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Taglines:

They came, they saw, they PARTIED!

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Genres:

Adventure | Comedy | Family

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG for some mild adolescent language and sensuality

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

26 August 1994 (USA)

Also Known As:

Campo de Férias

Filming Locations:

Sierra Madre, California, USA

Box Office

Gross USA:

$10,471,613

Company Credits

Production Co:

Hollywood Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Jonathan Jackson's soap opera mother Genie Francis has a small role as Arnold's mother. Arnold's father is played by her real-life husband Jonathan Frakes.

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Goofs

When Mud and Gaby are in the bus, they are talking about growing up and dating. In the front shots Mud is laying back in his bean bag, but in the reverse angle shots, he is sitting upright on the edge of the bean bag.

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Quotes

"Mud": I'm in hell. Shoot me.

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Crazy Credits

Filmed entirely on location -- Nowhere [Actually: Golden Oak Ranch, Newhall, California]

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Connections

References The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

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Soundtracks

BONES
Written by Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, Babatunde Olatunji and Flora Purim
Performed by Mickey Hart/Planet Drum
Courtesy of Rykodisc

User Reviews

'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!