Camp Nowhere

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Camp Nowhere
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Directed by	Jonathan Prince
Produced by	Michael Peyser
Written by	Andrew Kurtzman Eliot Wald
Starring	Jonathan Jackson Christopher Lloyd Melody Kay Andrew Keegan Marne Patterson
Music by	David Lawrence
Distributed by	Buena Vista Pictures
Release date(s)	August 26, 1994
Running time	96 min.
Language	English
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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 one of her first film roles.

Taglines:

No parents, no counselors, no rules.
They came, they saw, they PARTIED!
This summer, kids rule.

[edit] Plot

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 must convince the parents that the camp is genuine, and that they aren't allowed to visit...

[edit] Trivia

This was the fourth film staring both Christopher Lloyd and Tom Wilson. Previously the two actors worked together in the Back To The Future Trilogy.
A 2006 film, Accepted, has a similar premise, but for college rather than summer camp.
Judging by the fact they went through a car wash in Shamokin, it implies that the camp is located in Pennsylvania's Coal Region.