Independent Films, Film Profiles

Camp Nowhere

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 Marne Patterson. The film also features Jessica Alba in her first film role. This film is rated PG by the MPAA.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 his own design, which would actually be a parent-free paradise. Blackmailing former drama teacher Dennis Van Welker into helping, they rent a camp ground with a cabin and a lake. They first night there the kids ask for the money their parents had paid. The next day they had spent most of their money on fun things. They soon tire of the camp feeling they should call their parents and come home. Mud goes to Dennis for help and with a bribe Denis soon makes a fun game for the kids to play. Soon the parents want to come visit their kids. Mud knows he would have to make a plan and along with their other friends they keep the camp concealed, but their plan doesn't work and they are caught. The police are called and Mud finds Dennis running away from all the troubles. When Mud is confronted by the police he is asked where Denis is,being a true friend Mud doesn't say, but soon after Dennis turns him self in. After a lot of begging Dennis is let off the hook and the kids had the greatest experience of their lives.