• Genres: Family, Adventure, Comedy
• Tagline: No parents, no counselors, no rules.
• Plot Synopsis: Morris “Mud” Himmel has a problem. His parents desperately want to send him away to summer camp. He hates going to summer camp, and would do anything to get out of it. Talking to his friends, he realises that they are all facing the same sentence: a boring summer camp. Together with his friends, he hatches a plan to trick all the parents into sending them to a camp of his own design, which would actually be a parent-free paradise. Blackmailing former drama teacher Dennis Van Welker into helping, they must convince the parents that the camp is genuine, and that they aren’t allowed to visit…
• Plot Keywords: Camping | Kids And Family | Summer Camp | Bully | Electric Guitar | First Love | Scam | Skinny Dipping | Teenage Rebellion | Teenager Problems | Guitar | Answering Machine
• Actors: John Putch, Peter Scolari, Romy Windsor, Jonathan Jackson, Joshua Gibran Mayweather
• Directors: Jonathan Prince
• ASIN: B00008L3T3
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #7,878 in DVD

Editorial Reviews

At the end of each school year young Morris “Mud” Himmel and his friends are unceremoniously packed off by their parents to summer camps that specialize in computer programming, military training, or calorie counting. However, this summer Morris and his clever cohorts have determined to create their own vacation haven. And with help from out-of-work high school drama teacher Dennis Van Welker (Christopher Lloyd) — who passes himself off to each of the kids’ parents as the owner of different phony theme camps — the kids fabricate an elaborate scheme to take control of their summer. With no counselors, no rules or parental supervision, calamity prevails as the teens turn a rented group of dilapidated cabins near a leech-filled lake into the wildest, video game-filled, junk food eating and unencumbered summer camp a parent would never allow his kids to attend; in short — the best camp in the world.