Gorp (film)
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| Directed by | Joseph Ruben |
| Produced by | Lou Arkoff Jeffrey Konvitz |
| Written by | Jeffrey Konvitz A. Martin Zweiback |
| Starring | Michael Lembeck Dennis Quaid Fran Drescher |
| Music by | Paul Dunlap |
| Cinematography | Michel Hugo |
| Editing by | Bill Butler |
| Distributed by | American International Pictures |
| Release date(s) | May 1, 1980[1] |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English German |
Gorp is a 1980 independent comedy film starring Michael Lembeck and Dennis Quaid, and featuring early acting work of Rosanna Arquette and Fran Drescher in supporting roles. Directed by Joseph Ruben, with both story and screenplay by Jeffrey Konvitz & A. Martin Zweiback, the film follows in the tradition of the 1978 fraternity comedy film National Lampoon's Animal House, and the 1979 summer camp comedy film Meatballs. Gorp was the last film released by American International Pictures.
Set in a Jewish summer camp, Gorp features the kind of physical, sexual, and scatological comedy prevalent in films of this genre, while playing for comedic effect on the class distinctions between the camp's management, the camp counselors, the waiters, and the kitchen staff.
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[edit] Plot
Chaos reigns in the Catskills when Kavell (Michael Lembeck) and Bergman (Philip Casnoff), two college students who spend their summers working in the dining hall at Camp Oskemo, an upstate New York summer camp where they're the senior waiters, return. Serving food to bratty children doesn't interest them nearly as much as trying to make it with the female counselors at the camp, among them pretty but chaste Vicki (Lisa Shure) and attractive but significantly less virginal Evie (Fran Drescher). Kavell and Bergman also wage an annual war against the junior waiters with the help of deranged server Mad Grossman (Dennis Quaid), but their real nemesis is Walrus Wallman (David Huddleston), the camp owner who makes no secret of his dislike for the waiters. Over the course of one eventful summer, Kavell, Bergman, and their fellow food slingers dose the entire camp with amphetamines, taint the Kosher meals with pork, screen pornographic movies during Parent's Weekend, run a tank through the campgrounds, and destroy the waiter's housing and most of what surrounds it.
[edit] Cast
- Michael Lembeck as Kavell
- Dennis Quaid as Mad Grossman
- Fran Drescher as Evie
- Rosanna Arquette as Judy
- Philip Casnoff as Bergman
- Lisa Shure as Vicki
- David Huddleston as Walrus Wallman
- Robert Trebor as Rabbi Blowitz
- Lou Wagner as Federman
- Julius Harris as Fred the Chef
[edit] References
- ^ Gorp at Rotten Tomatoes
[edit] External links
- Gorp at the Internet Movie Database
- Gorp at AllRovi
- Gorp at Rotten Tomatoes
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