Gorp (film)
| Gorp | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Joseph Ruben |
| Produced by |
Lou Arkoff Jeffrey Konvitz |
| Written by |
Jeffrey Konvitz A. Martin Zweiback |
| Starring |
Michael Lembeck Dennis Quaid Fran Drescher |
| Music by | Paul Dunlap |
| Cinematography | Michel Hugo |
| Editing by | Bill Butler |
| Distributed by | American International Pictures |
| Release dates |
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| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language |
English German |
Gorp is a 1980 comedy film starring Michael Lembeck and Dennis Quaid, and featuring early acting work of Rosanna Arquette and Fran Drescher in supporting roles. Directed by Joseph Ruben, with both story and screenplay by Jeffrey Konvitz and A. Martin Zweiback, the film follows in the tradition of the 1978 fraternity comedy National Lampoon's Animal House, and the 1979 summer camp comedy film Meatballs. Gorp was the last film released by American International Pictures.
Set in a Jewish summer camp, Gorp features the kind of physical, sexual, and scatological comedy prevalent in films of this genre, while playing for comedic effect on the class distinctions between the camp's management, the camp counselors, the waiters, and the kitchen staff.
Plot
Chaos reigns in the Catskills when Kavell and Bergman, two college students who spend their summers working in the dining hall at Camp Oskemo, an upstate New York summer camp where they're the senior waiters, return. Serving food to bratty children doesn't interest them nearly as much as trying to make it with the female counselors at the camp, among them the pretty but chaste Vicki and the beautiful and sexually liberated Evie. Kavell and Bergman also wage an annual war against the junior waiters with the help of deranged server Mad Grossman, but their real nemesis is Walrus Wallman, the camp owner who makes no secret of his dislike for the waiters. Over the course of one eventful summer, Kavell, Bergman, and their fellow food slingers dose the entire camp with amphetamines, taint the Kosher meals with pork, screen pornographic films during Parent's Weekend, run a tank through the campgrounds, and destroy the waiter's housing and most of what surrounds it.
Cast
- Michael Lembeck as Kavell
- Dennis Quaid as Mad Grossman
- Fran Drescher as Evie
- Rosanna Arquette as Judy
- Philip Casnoff as Bergman
- Lisa Shure as Vicki
- David Huddleston as Walrus Wallman
- Robert Trebor as Rabbi Blowitz
- Lou Wagner as Federman
- Julius Harris as Fred the Chef
References
External links
- Gorp at the Internet Movie Database
- Gorp at Rotten Tomatoes
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