Gorp (1980)

Directed by

Joseph Ruben

Genre

comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

R

Rating

3.5 of 10 from 25 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of counselors and staff at a Jewish summer camp get into wild antics. The movie focuses on physical and sexual comedy as different camp factions clash.

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What happens

Gorp is a 1980 American 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 penultimate film released by American International Pictures, before How to Beat the High Cost of Living two months later. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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