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Camp
Release Date: July 25, 2003 (limited)
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Anna's Role: Fritzi Wagner
Also Starring: Daniel Letterle, Joanna Chilcoat, Robin de Jesus
Directed by: Todd Graff
Produced by: Jonathan Weisgal, Christine Vachon
Screenplay by: Todd Graff
Genres: Comedy, Musical
Running Time: 114 min.
Distributors: IFC Films
U.S. Box Office: $1,628,154
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Misfits in their lives back home, a group of young people live it up at musical-theater camp. While the sports counselor is completely ignored, the kids' spend all their time in rehearsal for a grueling schedule that involves a new show every two weeks. Several personal stories come to the fore. Is talented golden-boy Vlad honest in his feelings about Ellen? Can cross-dressing Michael have a relationship with his parents? Will one-hit-wonder musical playwrite and now camp counselor Bert Hanley remain mired in drink and cynicism? Fireworks are in store when Fritzi, who slavishly serves glamour girl Jill, is finally told to get a life, and the parents of Jenna, whose jaw has been wired shut in a compromise to avoid being sent to "fat camp", learn a valuable lesson at the summer's big end-of-season benefit.
Slavish follower of glamour girl Jill, who eventually finds her own voice and upstages Jill during a crucial performance.
"I do have a passion for theater. But I try my best not to stalk people."
"A patchwork quilt for the unloved misfits it glorifies and indulges, Todd Graff's Camp has a quarter of the polish of Chicago, but three times the humanity. "
-- Elbert Ventura | Pop Matters (Full Review)
"Writer/director Graff doesn't give the kids much to work with, lumbering them with a script overloaded with gay clichés ... and lazy rip-offs."
-- Peter Howell | Toronto Star (Full Review)
"A comedy, and for all its cliches and clumsiness, close to a great one. "
-- Ty Burr | The Boston Globe (Full Review)
"The situations are mighty broad, but exuberance counts for something in the movie with perhaps the year's most double-edged title."
-- Mike Clarke | USA Today (Full Review)