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Meatballs

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Meatballs
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PG,1hr 32min
Genre:
Comedy
Released:
January 1, 1979
Director:
Ivan Reitman
Distributor:
HBO Home Video
Starring:
Bill Murray, Harvey Atkin, Kate Lynch  ...more
Synopsis: Set at a low-end summer camp and aimed squarely at a teen audience, Meatballs is a light screwball comedy that turned its low-budget Canadian roots into a very profitable box-office run. The biggest reason for the film's success is Bill Murray who stars as Tripper, the head counselor who runs things at Camp Northstar with the help of his love interest Roxanne (Kate Lynch) and the camp's director Morty (Harvey Atkins), who is affectionately known as Mickey. Camp opens with Tripper and Morty preparing ... Full Synopsis
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Patrick Legare, AMG Review
The first of Bill Murray's cinematic comedy hits in the wake of his stint on TV's Saturday Night Live, Meatballs is a silly, enjoyable romp set at a low-cost summer camp. Murray stars as the camp's head counselor, a quack whose immature, screwball sense of humor hides a good-natured veneer when he befriends a depressed 11-year-old (My Bodyguard's Chris Makepeace). Other characters, played primarily ... Full Review
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Bill Murray
Tripper
Harvey Atkin
Morty
Kate Lynch
Roxanne
Russ Banham
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