Meatballs (1979)
Meatballs was the link movie connecting Crimson Tide and Sylvia.
Linked through Matt Craven and Russ Banham.
Both Matt Craven and Russ Banham appeared in Meatballs.
About Meatballs
"Are you ready for a good time?"
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.
Directed by Ivan Reitman
Written by Daniel Goldberg, Len Blum, Janis Allen, Harold Ramis
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Awards
Meatballs won the Golden Reel Award as the highest-grossing Canadian film for the year, becoming the first Canadian film to surpass $2.5 million domestically and earning recognition as Canada's top-grossing picture that season.
Soundtrack
Score by Elmer Bernstein
Elmer Bernstein wrote the film's score; soundtrack contributors included Mary MacGregor ('Good Friend'), David Naughton ('Makin' It')—which served as the theme for his short-lived sitcom—and Rick Dees ('Meatballs'). 'Makin' It' and 'Good Friend' charted on Billboard, with 'Makin' It' reaching No. 5 and 'Good Friend' No. 39; the soundtrack album reached Billboard 170.
Movie trivia
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Meatballs was Bill Murray's first film appearance in a starring role and helped launch Ivan Reitman's directing career, who later made the Murray-starring comedies Stripes and Ghostbusters.
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It is the first of six film collaborations between Bill Murray and Harold Ramis.
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Harold Ramis said Reitman did not know for certain whether Murray would be in the film until Murray showed up for the third day of filming.
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Eddie Deezen was approached to play Spaz but declined because he was already committed to the film 1941.
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Principal photography took place at Camp White Pine on Hurricane Lake, between Haliburton and West Guilford, Ontario, in August–September 1978.
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Meatballs was a surprise hit: it became the first Canadian film to gross more than $2.5 million in Canada, won the Golden Reel Award as the year's highest-grossing Canadian film, and amassed a combined US–Canada gross of $43 million.
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