This amiable Canadian-produced comedy featured Bill Murray as Tripper Harrison, a counsellor-in-training at second-rate Camp North Star whipping a pack of stereotypes into shape.
Most of the story concerns Tripper’s sensitive friendship with a lonely young misfit, Rudy (Chris Makepeace), Tripper’s courtship with fellow counsellor-in-training, Roxanne (Kate Lynch), and Camp North Star’s various run-ins with the stuck-up folks at neighbouring Camp Mohawk.
This early collaboration for Murray and Ghost Busters director Ivan Reitman is solely dependent on its star for laughs, and Murray dominates every single frame, which is very definitely a good thing.
The movie appealed most to junior high school students – or adults who never escaped that mentality.
Tripper Harrison
Bill Murray Morty
Harvey Atkin Roxanne
Kate Lynch Crockett
Russ Banham AL
Kristine DeBell Candace
Sarah Torgov Spaz
Jack Blum Fink
Keith Knight
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