Camp Nowhere
Encyclopedia
Camp Nowhere is a 1994 film
directed by Jonathan Prince
, written by Andrew Kurtzman and Eliot Wald
, and starring Jonathan Jackson
, Christopher Lloyd
, Melody Kay
, Andrew Keegan
, and Marnette Patterson
. The film also features Jessica Alba
in her first film role. This film is rated PG by the MPAA, this is the first family film under Disney's Hollywood Pictures
banner.
and failed to make most of the payments and is being pursued by soon-to-retire collector T.R. Polk, and agrees to help the kids in return for $1,000. With Dennis' help, the kids trick all the parents into sending them to the camp, and then rent a campground with a cabin on a lake. Some parents believe it is a fat camp, while others believe it is a military camp, or an acting camp. The kids use the money their parents had paid for camp to buy toys and food. After a little while, the kids get bored and wonder if they should just return home. Mud goes to Dennis for help and with a bribe Dennis soon finds ways to keep things interesting and help the kids have fun.
The parents want to come visit their kids, despite being told that there are no parents' days. Mud makes a plan to trick the parents, and along with his friends they keep the camp concealed. In a matter of hours, they fix up the camp and set up different scenarios representing the different camps (fat camp, computer camp, military camp, etc.) Their plan works and the parents don't suspect a thing. Polk meets a state trooper who was also seeking Dennis, and the two find their way into the camp and catch him. The police are called and Mud finds Dennis running away from all the troubles. Mud is confronted by the police but does not give him up, but soon after Dennis turns himself in. Mud explains that the whole thing was his idea, and uses the rest of the money to pay T.R. Polk, who'll retire with a perfect record. Dennis gets off the hook and the kids leave for home, having had the greatest summer of their lives.
. Though it remains to have a cult like status.
The cast features several cameos from General Hospital and Star Trek
alums. Jonathan Jackson's on screen mother in General Hospital, Genie Francis, appears with her real life husband Jonathan Frakes, Star Trek's William Riker. Kate Mulgrew, Star Trek's Captain Janeway, also appears in the film.
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
directed by Jonathan Prince
Jonathan Prince
Jonathan Alexander Prince is an American actor, director, screenwriter and movie producer.-Career:Prince embarked on an acting career following graduation from Harvard University. His most prominent roles include "Leo" in the 1981 CBS series Mr...
, written by Andrew Kurtzman and Eliot Wald
Eliot Wald
Eliot Wald was a comedy writer who worked for The Second City improv group in Chicago and for Saturday Night Live before turning to movies. He and a partner, Andrew Kurtzman, wrote scripts for the television movie Hot Paint and for the films See No Evil, Hear No Evil , Camp Nowhere and Down...
, and starring Jonathan Jackson
Jonathan Jackson (actor)
Jonathan Stevens Jackson is an American actor, best known for playing Lucky Spencer, son of supercouple Luke and Laura on the American daytime drama General Hospital...
, Christopher Lloyd
Christopher Lloyd
Christopher Allen Lloyd is an American actor. He is best known for playing Emmett Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy, Uncle Fester in The Addams Family and Addams Family Values, and Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. He played Reverend Jim Ignatowski in the television series Taxi and more...
, Melody Kay
Melody Kay
Melody Kay is an American actress. She starred in several movies including Camp Nowhere and The NeverEnding Story III. Melody was born in Michigan and did local theater. She was in Life commercials and acted on and off Broadway. Melody is married with 2 children and has one sister.-External links:...
, Andrew Keegan
Andrew Keegan
Andrew Keegan is an American actor and producer. He is best known for his role of Joey Donner in the film 10 Things I Hate About You.-Life and career:...
, and Marnette Patterson
Marnette Patterson
Marnette Patterson is an American actress who is perhaps best known for her role as Christy Jenkins on Charmed.-Career:Patterson portrayed Nicole Farrell on the NBC series Something So Right....
. The film also features Jessica Alba
Jessica Alba
Jessica Marie Alba is an American television and film actress. She began her television and movie appearances at age 13 in Camp Nowhere and The Secret World of Alex Mack . Alba rose to prominence as the lead actress in the television series Dark Angel...
in her first film role. This film is rated PG by the MPAA, this is the first family film under Disney's Hollywood Pictures
Hollywood Pictures
Hollywood Pictures is one of The Walt Disney Company's several alternate movie divisions. Like Disney's Touchstone Pictures brand, it produces films for a more mature adult audience than Walt Disney Pictures.-History:...
banner.
Plot
Morris "Mud" Himmel has a problem – his parents want to send him away to a summer computer 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 create their own summer camp with no parents, no counselors, and no rules. They blackmail former drama teacher Dennis Van Welker into helping. He had bought an AMC GremlinAMC Gremlin
The AMC Gremlin is a two-door subcompact car produced in the United States and Canada by the American Motors Corporation between 1970 and 1978. AMC reduced its development and manufacturing costs by adapting a shortened Hornet platform with a Kammback-type tail...
and failed to make most of the payments and is being pursued by soon-to-retire collector T.R. Polk, and agrees to help the kids in return for $1,000. With Dennis' help, the kids trick all the parents into sending them to the camp, and then rent a campground with a cabin on a lake. Some parents believe it is a fat camp, while others believe it is a military camp, or an acting camp. The kids use the money their parents had paid for camp to buy toys and food. After a little while, the kids get bored and wonder if they should just return home. Mud goes to Dennis for help and with a bribe Dennis soon finds ways to keep things interesting and help the kids have fun.
The parents want to come visit their kids, despite being told that there are no parents' days. Mud makes a plan to trick the parents, and along with his friends they keep the camp concealed. In a matter of hours, they fix up the camp and set up different scenarios representing the different camps (fat camp, computer camp, military camp, etc.) Their plan works and the parents don't suspect a thing. Polk meets a state trooper who was also seeking Dennis, and the two find their way into the camp and catch him. The police are called and Mud finds Dennis running away from all the troubles. Mud is confronted by the police but does not give him up, but soon after Dennis turns himself in. Mud explains that the whole thing was his idea, and uses the rest of the money to pay T.R. Polk, who'll retire with a perfect record. Dennis gets off the hook and the kids leave for home, having had the greatest summer of their lives.
Reception
The film received poor reviews, scoring a 10% positive rating on Rotten TomatoesRotten Tomatoes
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. Though it remains to have a cult like status.
Cast
- Jonathan JacksonJonathan Jackson (actor)Jonathan Stevens Jackson is an American actor, best known for playing Lucky Spencer, son of supercouple Luke and Laura on the American daytime drama General Hospital...
– Morris "Mud" Himmel - Christopher LloydChristopher LloydChristopher Allen Lloyd is an American actor. He is best known for playing Emmett Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy, Uncle Fester in The Addams Family and Addams Family Values, and Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. He played Reverend Jim Ignatowski in the television series Taxi and more...
– Dennis Van Welker - Melody KayMelody KayMelody Kay is an American actress. She starred in several movies including Camp Nowhere and The NeverEnding Story III. Melody was born in Michigan and did local theater. She was in Life commercials and acted on and off Broadway. Melody is married with 2 children and has one sister.-External links:...
– Gaby Nowicki - Andrew KeeganAndrew KeeganAndrew Keegan is an American actor and producer. He is best known for his role of Joey Donner in the film 10 Things I Hate About You.-Life and career:...
– Zack Dell - Marnette PattersonMarnette PattersonMarnette Patterson is an American actress who is perhaps best known for her role as Christy Jenkins on Charmed.-Career:Patterson portrayed Nicole Farrell on the NBC series Something So Right....
– Trish Prescott - Wendy MakkenaWendy Makkena-Career:Born in New York City, Makkena started her acting career in 1986 and appeared in the TV show Santa Barbara. She later landed her first movie role in Eight Men Out...
– Dr. Celeste Dunbar - Thomas F. WilsonThomas F. WilsonThomas F. Wilson is an American actor, writer, musician, painter, voice-over artist and stand-up comedian. He is best known for playing Biff Tannen in the Back to the Future trilogy and Coach Ben Fredricks on NBC's Freaks and Geeks.-Early life:Thomas Francis Wilson, Jr. was...
– Lt. Eliot Hendricks - Hillary TuckHillary TuckHillary Tuck is an American actress, who is perhaps best known for her co-starring roles in the NBC Saturday Morning sitcom Hang Time and Disney's Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show...
– Betty Stoller - Devin Neil Oatway – Tim
- Allison MackAllison MackNot to be confused with Alison MacAllison Mack is an American actress. She is best known for her role of Chloe Sullivan on the Superman-inspired television series Smallville.-Early life:...
– Heather - Jessica AlbaJessica AlbaJessica Marie Alba is an American television and film actress. She began her television and movie appearances at age 13 in Camp Nowhere and The Secret World of Alex Mack . Alba rose to prominence as the lead actress in the television series Dark Angel...
– Gail - Ian Christopher Scott – Warrenaqwa
- Nathan CavaleriNathan CavaleriNathan Cavaleri is an Australian blues-rock guitarist and former child actor.-Biography:Cavaleri was diagnosed with leukaemia at a very early age and this led to playing the guitar to take his mind off the disease. He has since beaten the disease. He began playing at the age of six after using a...
– Steve - Heather DeLoachHeather DeLoachHeather DeLoach is an American actress. She is best known for her portrayal of the tap dancing "Bee Girl" in the 1992 music video for the hit single "No Rain", by Blind Melon...
– Eileen - Paige Andree – Jill
- Leah Theresa Hanner – Debbie
- Mooky Arizona – Arnold Spiegel
- Kazz Wingate IV – Pete
- Kellen McLaughlin – J.D.
- Brian Wagner – Lenny
- Joshua G. Mayweather – Walter
- Nicolas Friedman – Ricky
- Alyssa Poblador – Nicole
- Tiffany Mataras – Ashley
- Krystal Mataras – Amber
- Peter ScolariPeter ScolariPeter Scolari is an American television, film and stage actor best known for his roles in the television shows Newhart, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, and Bosom Buddies.-Career:...
– Donald Himmel - Romy Windsor – Nancy Himmel
- M. Emmet WalshM. Emmet WalshMichael Emmet Walsh is an American actor who has appeared in over 100 film and television productions.-Life and career:Walsh was born in Ogdensburg, New York, the son of Agnes Kathrine and Harry Maurice Walsh, Sr., a customs agent...
– T.R. Polk - Ray BakerRay Baker (actor)Ray Baker is an American theater, television and film actor. He is a long time character actor with over 100 credits on television and film alone. Baker is credited either as Ray or Raymond.-Selected filmography:...
– Norris Prescott - Kate MulgrewKate MulgrewKatherine Kiernan Maria "Kate" Mulgrew is an American actress, most noted for her roles on Star Trek: Voyager as Captain Kathryn Janeway and Ryan's Hope as Mary Ryan...
– Rachel Prescott - John Putch – Neil Garbus
- Burgess MeredithBurgess MeredithOliver Burgess Meredith , known professionally as Burgess Meredith, was an American actor in theatre, film, and television, who also worked as a director...
– Fein - Maryedith BurrellMaryedith BurrellMaryedith Burrell is an American television actor and comedian, best known for her role in the early-1980s sketch comedy series Fridays....
– Gwen Nowicki - Peter OnoratiPeter Onorati-Biography:He was born and raised in Boonton, New Jersey and attended Boonton High School. He attended Lycoming College, where he received his B.A. degree in Business Administration. He was an NCAA all-conference wide receiver, and signed up to play in the World Football League...
– Karl Dell - Jonathan FrakesJonathan FrakesJonathan Scott Frakes is an American actor, author and director best known for his role as Commander William T. Riker in the Star Trek franchise, as well as for his tenure as host of Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction ....
– Bob Spiegel - Genie FrancisGenie FrancisEugenie "Genie" Francis Frakes is an American actress known for her portrayal of Laura Spencer on the ABC daytime drama General Hospital. She is currently playing Genevieve Atkinson on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless...
– Mrs. Spiegel
The cast features several cameos from General Hospital and Star Trek
Star Trek
Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise...
alums. Jonathan Jackson's on screen mother in General Hospital, Genie Francis, appears with her real life husband Jonathan Frakes, Star Trek's William Riker. Kate Mulgrew, Star Trek's Captain Janeway, also appears in the film.