| Camp Hope | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | George VanBuskirk |
| Written by | George VanBuskirk |
| Starring | Will Denton Dana Delany Andrew McCarthy Bruce Davison Jesse Eisenberg |
| Music by | Gary DeMichele |
| Cinematography | Michael McDonough |
| Studio | New Films International |
| Distributed by | Warner Home Video Lionsgate |
| Release date(s) | August 13, 2010 |
| Running time | 99 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3 million[1] |
| Box office | $2,000 |
Camp Hope is a 2010 American thriller film starring Will Denton, Dana Delany, Andrew McCarthy, Bruce Davison and Jesse Eisenberg. The film is also known as Camp Hell. It was released August 13, 2010 on United States.
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By the end of each summer, children from the Christian cult community in the suburbs of New Jersey visited Camp Hope. Deep in the woods, away from civilization, the children are taught the ways of cult-like Christianity, the dangers of gluttony and the Devil. The head priest teaches the children fundamentalist Christianity, who has unknowingly brought evil with him by solely focusing on Sin instead of salvation. The priest fills these young minds with the belief that everything they do is a sin and asking them whether or not they masturbate, because masturbation according to the priest is the same as premarital sex, which can never be forgiven. The priest also goes as far as to call a little girl at the camp a whore simply because she was talking to a male member of the camp. The movie ends with no form of reason or explanation with the main character Tommy Leary, losing his faith in God due to the continuous barrage of fundamentalist ideals. The priest ends up in a coma for reasons unknown. The members of the community refused to pull the plug and will instead just pray everyday for him to get better, while the priest spends the rest of his life in a persistent vegetative state.
The film was released in the United States August 13, 2010. Lionsgate release film on DVD in the United States in 2011.[2]
Jesse Eisenberg has filed a lawsuit against Lionsgate Entertainment and Grindstone Entertainment for trying to fraudulently capitalize on his fame by using his name and face to promote a movie he was barely in. Legal documents state: [3]
"Eisenberg is bringing this lawsuit in order to warn his fans and public that, contrary to the manner in which the defendants are advertising the film, Eisenberg is not the star of and does not appear in a prominent role in Camp Hell, but instead has a cameo role in Camp Hell."
Eisenberg asked for damages of at least US$3 million.[4]
Eisenberg originally agreed to play a small cameo role in the film "as a favor to friends" for "minimal compensation", but Lionsgate is promoting it, in hopes to capitalize on it, as if he were the main A-list star in the film.[5]