Camp Stories
5 /10 1 Votes
Director Herbert Beigel Music director Roy Nathanson Writer Herbert Beigel | 5/10 IMDb Genre Comedy Duration Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date April 18, 1997 (1997-04-18) Genres Comedy, Teen film, Family film, Indie film, Coming of age, Comedy-drama Cast Jason Biggs , Jerry Stiller (Schlomo), Elliott Gould , Talia Balsam , Ted Marcoux Similar movies Jupiter Ascending , Pitch Perfect 2 , The Last Witch Hunter , Frozen , Captain America: The First Avenger , The Avengers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Camp Stories is an independent comedy film, written and directed by Herbert Beigel that takes a comic look at a Jewish summer camp in the 1950s. The film was released on April 18, 1997 in the United States
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Plot synopsis
In the summer of 1958, 15-year-old David Katz is constantly defying authority figures at the Orthodox Jewish summer camp he is enrolled in. He especially riles the paranoid camp counsellor Chaim (Marcoux) who believes David is having an affair with his wife. The adolescent antics continue with the boys arranging midnight rendezvous at the girls camp.
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Reception
The New York Times praised the film, asserting that it is "more honest than most 1950s nostalgia films in its portrayal of teen-age life." The newspaper continued; "the political jockeying among staff members to succeed the camp's ultraconservative founder, Schlomo (Jerry Stiller), mirrors the cultural conflicts just beginning to surface in America (and in Judaism), symbolized by the bubbling up of rock-and-roll." The reviewer also concluded that this "tender" film is "beautifully acted".
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