Camp Nowhere (1994)

A group of junior high kids don't want to go to summer camps chosen by their parents. They make their own adult-free camp and "hire" an ex drama teacher to help.

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

Did You Know?

Trivia

The name of the fake computer camp used is "Binary Pines Computer Camp", a play on the "Twin Pines Mall" from Back to the Future (1985).

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Goofs

Morris says the kids are watching Beavis and Butthead which only airs on cable channel MTV, but in a later scene the kids are complaining that they don't get cable television.

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Quotes

Gaby: Guys can be geeks, but it's different for girls. I'm gonna wind up wearing a hairnet and serving Jell-o in the cafeteria!
"Mud": That won't happen, because a lot of girls start out... lumpy. But you'll lose a few pounds, and then you'll start to grow... chests, and then you'll be going out with guys who hang me up by my underwear.
Gaby: [dryly] Oh yeah, I can hardly wait.

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Crazy Credits

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

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Connections

Referenced in Goosebumps: Welcome to Camp Nightmare: Part 1 (1995)

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Soundtracks

LINGER
Written by Dolores O'Riordan and Noel Hogan
Performed by The Cranberries
Courtesy of Island Records

User Reviews

Good movie for kids

Involuntarily I have watched this one on TV. It was good, had an okay storyline (even though pretty unrealistic... but that applies to all movies of this kind), and most importantly it didn't have exaggerated cheap and lame humour a lá Police Academy or similar. This one might even entertain grown ups. I'd say this movie was one of the better kid's flicks (not saying that Police Academy is one, but honestly, it's a big piece of crap). However I can't judge the original version since I've seen the German dubbed version which was pretty ok. I think it's underrated here at IMdB. I give it a kids/comedy rating of 7/10 (please note that this is not a generic movie rating. imo you cannot judge all kinds of movies the same).

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

26 August 1994 (USA)

Also Known As:

Camp Nowhere

Filming Locations:

California, USA

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$2,755,661, 28 August 1994

Gross USA:

$10,475,705

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$10,475,705

Company Credits

Production Co:

Hollywood Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1