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Amusing and harmless misadventures at summer camp with Bill Murray Bill Murray (who was 28 during shooting) stars as an eccentrically droll camp counselor at Camp North Star who “trains” CITs, counselors-in-training, as they oversee the hordes of kids and face challenges with…
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Meatballs
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58%
Movie
1h 32m
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Meatballs (1979) — AI movie analysis
WatchMind AI generated this AI analysis of Meatballs (1979) — a movie tagged as Comedy with funny moods and steady pacing.
Story & themes: Tripper is the head counselor at a budget summer camp called Camp Northstar. In truth, he's young at heart and only marginally more mature than the campers themselves. Tripper befriends Rudy, a loner camper who has trouble fitting in. As Tripper inspires his young charges to defeat rival Camp Mohawk in the annual Ol… Our models also surface themes such as identity, conflict, and relationships from synopsis and genre signals.
Watch context: Best suited for date night and casual background watching. Expect steady storytelling (~92 min).
Community signal: TMDb members rate Meatballs 58% (352 votes) — mixed but watchable scores for this movie.
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Tripper is the head counselor at a budget summer camp called Camp Northstar. In truth, he's young at heart and only marginally more mature than the campers themselves. Tripper befriends Rudy, a loner camper who has trouble fitting in. As Tripper inspires his young charges to defeat rival Camp Mohawk in the annual Olympiad competition, Rudy plays matchmaker between Tripper and Roxanne, a female counselor at Northstar.
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- Movie
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- 1979-06-28
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- TMDB rating
- 5.8
- TMDB ID
- 14035
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Tripper is the head counselor at a budget summer camp called Camp Northstar. In truth, he's young at heart and only marginally more mature than the campers themselves. Tripper befriends Rudy, a lon... This is the official synopsis available via TMDb community metadata.
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The official runtime for Meatballs is approximately 92 minutes.
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Cast
Bill Murray
Tripper Harrison
Harvey Atkin
Morty
Russ Banham
Crockett
Kristine DeBell
A.L.
Matt Craven
Hardware
Kate Lynch
Roxanne
Sarah Torgov
Candace
Keith Knight
Fink
Chris Makepeace
Rudy
Jack Blum
Spaz
Cindy Girling
Wendy
Margot Pinvidic
Jackie
Norma Dell'Agnese
Brenda
David Shore
Kid Eating Crackers
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Elmars Sebrins
Spaz's Father
- K
Keith O'Derek
Camper
- K
Keith Nicol
Camper
- M
Michael Code
Camper
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Amusing and harmless misadventures at summer camp with Bill Murray Bill Murray (who was 28 during shooting) stars as an eccentrically droll camp counselor at Camp North Star who “trains” CITs, counselors-in-training, as they oversee the hordes of kids and face challenges with teams from preppy Camp Mohawk. “Meatballs” (1979) is a fun and innocuous summer camp flick. It’s not great but it’s entertaining enough, although if I’m going to view a summer camp film I prefer the Friday the 13th movies (practically any of them), mainly because they feature superior women. Here, Cindy Girling as curvy blonde Wendy is by far the most alluring, although Sarah Torgov as Candace is decent. In light of the license plates, the camp is presumably located in upstate New York, but was shot in Camp White Pine, Haliburton, Ontario, which is only about 125 miles from the New York border. The movie runs 1 hour, 34 minutes. GRADE: B/B-
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