| Genre: | Drama |
| Year: | 1996 |
| Rating: | ? |
| Length: | 100 min |
| Country: | USA |
| Cast: | Paul Sand, Jerry Stiller, Zachary Taylor, Ted Marcoux, Talia Balsam, Elliott Gould |
| Credits: | Director: Herb Beigel. |
It's 1958, the year of seismic world changes - the Hungarian Revolution, Sputnik, Elvis Presley and the New York Giants' departure from their home field at the old Polo Grounds - but the only thing on fifteen-year-old David Katz's mind is the summer he must spend at Camp Ararat, an Orthodox Jewish camp in the Poconos.
A movie buff, he would rather spend his days inside cool, dark theaters. In the tradition of Stand By Me, CAMP STORIES is a nostalgic comedy of childhood adventure filtered through the prism of adult experience. Armed with personal charm, a healthy disrespect for authority, and the answers to any dilemma from his vast knowledge of old movie dialogue, Katz leads a motley group of underachievers through the timeless dramas of adolescence in this period comedy drama.
Shot in an Orthodox Jewish Camp in Massachusetts and starring such well-nown figures as Jerry Stiller (Seinfeld) and Elliott Gould (MASH, The Long Goodbye), the film, with its lively, klezmer-influenced score, is a dramatic evocation of this particular time and place.
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