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

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.

playfulsillyheartfeltupbeatunderdognostalgiccomediclighthearted

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)

Trailer

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