Camp Nowhere

"No parents. No counselors. No rules!"

1994 1h 36m EN

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5.9

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17%

ROTTEN

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6.1

IMDB

★5.9TMDB · 176🥫17%Rotten Tomatoes★6.1IMDB · 10,932

ComedyFamily

Synopsis

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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 realizes 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 their own design.

“No parents. No counselors. No rules!”

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Cast

Jonathan Jackson
Morris 'Mud' Himmel
Andrew Keegan
Zack Dell
Marnette Patterson
Trish Prescott
Melody Kay
Gaby Nowicki
Christopher Lloyd
Dennis Van Welker
M. Emmet Walsh
T.R. Polk
Wendy Makkena
Celeste Dunbar
Kate Mulgrew
Rachel Prescott

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Jonathan Prince
Writers: Andrew Kurtzman, Eliot Wald
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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ERA

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32 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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2 / 7

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Jonathan Prince, shot by Sandi Sissel. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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3 / 7

DIRECTOR

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Original score by David Lawrence. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Jon Poll shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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5 / 7

CAST

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Jonathan Jackson and Andrew Keegan and Marnette Patterson carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "No parents. No counselors. No rules!".

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7 / 7

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IMDB entry: tt0109369 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Jonathan Prince directs. Sandi Sissel behind the camera. David Lawrence scores. Jon Poll cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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132 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
2Directed by Jonathan Prince, shot by Sandi Sissel. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
3Original score by David Lawrence. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
4Editor Jon Poll shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Jonathan Jackson and Andrew Keegan and Marnette Patterson carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "No parents. No counselors. No rules!".
7IMDB entry: tt0109369 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Cinematography: Sandi Sissel
Original score: David Lawrence
Editing: Jon Poll
Production design: Rusty Smith
Costume design: Sherry Thompson
Runtime: 96 min · 1h 36m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG
IMDB: Camp Nowhere (1994)
Rotten Tomatoes: 17% 🥫 Rotten
IMDB rating: 6.1/10 · 10,932 votes
MPAA: PG
US box office: $10,475,705

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Kamurai2020-08-19
★ 4/10
Bad watch, probably won't watch again, and can't recommend. As much as I thought I would enjoy getting in the way back machine to see Christopher Lloyd getting up to whacky antics, this was disappointing. It's a bunch of rich, spoiled kids tricking their parents into paying for what they is a way to get rid of their kids for the summer, and the kids basically creating a criminal ring to facilitate it. I see a lot similarities between this and "Accepted", but where "Accepted" was built with better intentions by the characters who were adults that ended up dealing with a situation and turning it to be an attempt at betterment, "Camp Nowhere" grew the conspirators first and then committed to a fake camp. This movie just doesn't have the fun charm that its future counterpart has, and that can probably be attributed to the child actors involved. They're not all so bad, but they're mostly typical child actors. Sure there are some fun moments in this, but the overall story is severely lacking, and we don't need a fable to tell that this kid is going to be sorry and that he was wrong at the end of it.

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