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Camp Nowhere

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Camp Nowhere (1994)

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Reviews Counted: 10

Fresh: 1

Rotten:9

Average Rating: 3.6/10

Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: It's summertime, and high time for summer camp of four disgruntled kids made so blue by their neurotic parents expectations ranging from military camp to fat camp. So these saplin's band together,... It's summertime, and high time for summer camp of four disgruntled kids made so blue by their neurotic parents expectations ranging from military camp to fat camp. So these saplin's band together, and with the help of one of those bursting with self-discovery you-gotta-believe-in-yourself type o' adult figures, the youth of America are saved and swinging high inside the sweet chariot of life. [More]

Starring: Christopher Lloyd, Jonathan Jackson, Wendy Makkena, M. Emmet Walsh

Starring: Christopher Lloyd, Jonathan Jackson, Wendy Makkena, M. Emmet Walsh, Burgess Meredith, Jonathan Frakes, Kate Mulgrew, Peter Scolari, Jessica Alba

Director: Jonathan Prince

Director: Jonathan Prince

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  • Camp Nowhere
  • At the end of each school year young Morris "Mud" Himmel and his friends are unceremoniously packed off by their parents to summer camps that specialize in computer programming, military training, or calorie counting. However, this summer Morris and his clever cohorts have determined to create their own vacation haven. And with help from out-of-work high school drama teacher Dennis Van Welker (Christopher Lloyd) -- who passes himself off to each of the kids' parents as the owner of different phony theme camps -- the kids fabricate an elaborate scheme to take control of their summer. With no counselors, no rules or parental supervision, calamity prevails as the teens turn a rented group of dilapidated cabins near a leech-filled lake into the wildest, video game-filled, junk food eating and unencumbered summer camp a parent would never allow his kids to attend; in short -- the best camp in the world.
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    A truly interesting situation which the filmmakers generally leave wilting in the sun.

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    04/21/08
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    Elements were in place for a fun time here, but it just didn't happen...

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    05/20/03
    Janet Maslin
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    No kid is going to buy into a movie that revolves around a geek who isn't a geek and a fat girl who isn't fat.

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    03/11/03
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    03/10/03
    Rebecca Murray
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    A silly kids movie that should have gone straight to video.

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    08/20/02
    Bob Bloom
    Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

    As lovably "kooky" as Christopher Lloyd may be ... he can't do much on his own.

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    07/25/02
    Scott Weinberg
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    Innocent fun and should appeal to the pre-teen audience.

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    01/01/00
    Chris Hicks
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    It's sweet, likable and even vaguely hip.

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