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Meatballs (1979)

PG 06/28/1979 (US) Comedy 1h 32m

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When this lot go back to nature, nature runs for it's life.

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Tripper is the head counselor at a budget summer camp called Camp Northstar. In truth, he's young at heart and only marginally more mature than the campers themselves. Tripper befriends Rudy, a loner camper who has trouble fitting in. As Tripper inspires his young charges to defeat rival Camp Mohawk in the annual Olympiad competition, Rudy plays matchmaker between Tripper and Roxanne, a female counselor at Northstar.

Ivan Reitman

Director
Janis Allen

Writer
Daniel Goldberg

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Harold Ramis

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Len Blum

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Bill Murray

Tripper Harrison
Harvey Atkin

Morty
Russ Banham

Crockett
Kristine DeBell

A.L.
Todd Hoffman

Wheels
Matt Craven

Hardware
Kate Lynch

Roxanne
Sarah Torgov

Candace
Keith Knight

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A review by Wuchak

70%

Written by Wuchak on October 7, 2018

Amusing and harmless misadventures at summer camp with Bill Murray

Bill Murray (who was 28 during shooting) stars as an eccentrically droll camp counselor at Camp North Star who “trains” CITs, counselors-in-training, as they oversee the hordes of kids and face challenges with teams from preppy Camp Mohawk.

“Meatballs” (1979) is a fun and innocuous summer camp flick. It’s not great but it’s entertaining enough, although if I’m going to view a summer camp film I prefer the Friday the 13th movies (practically any of them), mainly because they feature superior women. Here, Cindy Girling as cu... read the rest.

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