Heavyweights (1995)
- Directed by
- Steven Brill
- Genre
- comedy film, comedy drama, children's film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 421 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
At a summer camp for overweight kids, a fitness guru takes over and turns the place into a strict boot camp. The campers band together to fight back against his harsh rules and reclaim their camp.
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What happens
Heavyweights is a 1995 American comedy film directed by Steven Brill and written by Brill with Judd Apatow. It stars Tom McGowan, Aaron Schwartz, Shaun Weiss, Tom Hodges, Leah Lail, Paul Feig, Kenan Thompson, David Bowe, Max Goldblatt, Robert Zalkind, Patrick LaBrecque, Jeffrey Tambor, Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, and Ben Stiller (in a dual role), and follows a fat camp for kids that is taken over by a fitness entrepreneur as its campers work to overthrow him. The film was released by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution on February 17, 1995. It received mixed reviews from critics and was a box-office bomb, grossing $17.7 million on a $10 million budget. It found a following on home video and cable television airings and has since become a cult film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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