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[[File:camp-nowhere-movie-poster_2334.jpg|frame|[[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?|It's actually for kids]]. No, [[Covers Always Lie|really.]]]]
'''''Camp Nowhere''''' is a 1994 comedy about a kid-run summer camp, starring [[Christopher Lloyd]].
Every year, junior high schoolers Mud, Gaby, Zack, and Trish are sent to summer camps their parents choose for them, but they hate: computer camp, fat camp, military camp, and drama camp, respectively. So, they decide this year is going to be different, and they are going to go somewhere they can be kids and have fun: A camp with no parents, no teachers, no camp counselors, and no rules.
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* [[Actor Allusion]]: Dennis, played by Christopher Lloyd, is rivaled against Hendricks, played by Thomas F. Wilson. [[Back to The Future|Remind anyone of anything?]]
** Dennis also falls in love with someone he has to lie to, as Doc Brown did in ''Back to the Future Part III''. And in both cases, the love interest forgives him.
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* [[Cool People Rebel Against Authority]]: Zack's modus operandi.
* [[Covers Always Lie]]:
** First, there's the page image above, which seems to make the movie out to be the second coming of ''[[Animal House]]''. In fact, the movie was a kids' movie and NOTHING like ''Animal House'', but [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?|you wouldn't know it]] by looking at that poster.<ref>Which can be seen larger [https://web.archive.org/web/20111107224027/http://images.moviepostershop.com/camp-nowhere-movie-poster-1020368216.jpg here].</ref>
:To wit: there were no supermodels in string bikinis and daisy dukes (there was probably only one bikini in the entire movie, and it was far more modest), the kids didn't tie up a guy in a suit and spray him with water, and most of the cast was in junior high school. But there ''were'' Super Soakers, so that poster wasn't ''completely'' wrong.
** Likewise [http://nsbrant.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/camp-nowhere.jpg this poster.] The four leads don't tie Dennis to a stake at any point in the movie.
* [[Decoy Protagonist]]: Walter, who is set up as Mud's best friend. It's actually Zack who becomes one of the four protagonists; Walter spends the majority of the film as a minor supporting character.
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'''Clerk:''' No. This is 1994. That would make you 31.
'''Trish:''' Wrong! If he was born in 1963, and he's 21, [[Insane Troll Logic|then it's 1984]]! Uh! }}
* [[Setting Update]]: Not so much this movie, but the 2006 movie ''[[Accepted]]'' was pretty much ''Camp Nowhere'' set in college. Explained in [https://web.archive.org/web/20110301171607/http://www.acslater.com/2011/02/23/accepted-is-camp-nowhere/ this article].
* [[Spanner in the Works]]:
** Walter does some research and finds out that Mud and the others are planning to go to a non-existent camp. Walter tells Betty. Betty tells everyone else.
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[[Category:Films of the 1990s]]
[[Category:Camp Nowhere]]
[[Category:Film]]
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