Camp Nowhere is a 1994 film directed by Jonathan Prince, written by Andrew Kurtzman and Eliot Wald, and starring Jonathan Jackson, Christopher Lloyd, Melody Kay, Andrew Keegan, and Marne Patterson. The film also features Jessica Alba in her first film role. This film is rated PG by the MPAA.
Plot
Morris "Mud" Himmel has a problem - his parents want to send him away to summer computer camp. He hates going to summer camp, and would do anything to get out of it. Talking to his friends, he realizes that they are all facing the same sentence: a boring summer camp. Together with his friends, he hatches a plan to create their own summer camp with no parents, no counselors, and no rules. They blackmail former drama teacher Dennis Van Welker into helping. He had bought a car and failed to make most of the payments and is being pursued by collector TR Polk, and agrees to help the kids in return for $1,000. With Van Welker's help, the kids trick all the parents into sending them to the camp, and then rent a campground with a cabin on a lake. Some parents believe it is a fat camp, while others believe it is a military camp, or an acting camp. The kids use the money their parents had paid for camp to buy toys and food. After a little while, the kids get bored and wonder if they should just return home. Mud goes to Dennis for help and with a bribe Dennis soon finds ways to keep things interesting and help the kids have fun. The parents want to come visit their kids, despite being told that there are no parents' days. Mud make a plans to trick the parents, and along with his friends they keep the camp concealed. In a matter of hours, they fix up the camp and set up different scenarios representing the different camps (fat camp, computer camp, military camp, etc.) Their plan works and the parents don't suspect a thing. Polk meets a police officer who was also seeking Van Welker, and the two find their way into the camp and catch him. The police are called and Mud finds Dennis running away from all the troubles. Mud is confronted by the police but does not give him up, but soon after Dennis turns himself in. Mud explains that the whole thing was his idea, and uses the rest of the money to pay TR Polk. Dennis gets off the hook and the kids leave for home, having had the greatest summer of their lives.
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