Camp Nowhere (1994)
Camp Nowhere was the link movie connecting 10 Things I Hate About You and American Sniper.
Linked through Andrew Keegan and Marnette Patterson.
Both Andrew Keegan and Marnette Patterson appeared in Camp Nowhere.
About Camp Nowhere
"No parents. No counselors. No rules!"
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.
Directed by Jonathan Prince
Written by Andrew Kurtzman, Eliot Wald
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Score by David Lawrence
Movie trivia
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Directed by Jonathan Prince and written by Andrew Kurtzman and Eliot Wald.
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Jonathan Jackson makes his film debut among the starring cast, and Jessica Alba also appears in her film debut.
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The kids blackmail former drama teacher Dennis Van Welker—who had bought an AMC Gremlin and fallen behind on payments—into helping run the fake camp to avoid repossession by collector T.R. Polk.
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They rent an old lakeside campground that had once been a hippie commune in the 1960s and '70s as the setting for their no-parents, no-counselors camp.
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Parents are duped into sending their children by being told the program is various specialized camps—computer, fat, military or acting—so the kids use the parents' payments to buy toys and food.
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The film holds a 17% Rotten Tomatoes score from 12 critics but earned a CinemaScore grade of B; reviewers such as Janet Maslin and Hal Hinson praised it while Bob Ross placed it among 1994's worst films but recommended Christopher Lloyd's performance.
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