How many meatballs movies are there

No, it's not Citizen Kane. But would you expect it to be with a name like "Meatballs"? It's the best damn summer camp movie of all the summer camp movies. Does anyone quote "Little Darlings" line by line?

Or "Whitewater Summer"? This is just one of those movies that got into my brain when I was in junior high, and stayed with me all these years. Every time I feel geeky, I mumble "Spaz. It just doesn't matter. Disappointed with the DVD, though. Wish there were special features, maybe a commentary or a making-of. But the movie itself is a perfect snapshot of life as an adolescent in the late '70s. Maybe not MY life You can't help but want to run around out in the woods in shorty shorts and knee-high socks and feathered hair every time you see this movie.

Details Edit. Release date June 29, United States. Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 34 minutes. Stereo Mono. Related news. So what happened to the rest of the cast of "Meatballs"? Find out here. Skip to Main Content. Ad Choices. The cast and crew have never reunited. In June , after 35 yrs, they will be doing so in benefit of the humanitarian charity Action Against Hunger Canada. Lloyd International, Inc. One size fits all. It's never explained why the movie title is Meatballs.

Except "Meatball" is a general term for a silly person, and the campers in this movie do act silly. Fink calls Spaz a meatball while they're playing tennis. During principal photography, the camp was a fully operational and functioning facility and was not closed down during the shoot.

The camp is located in Haliburton in the province of Ontario in Canada. At the meeting between days one and two of the Olympiad, Tripper refers to "the newest Olympic power Trinidad and Tobago". While this is apparently sarcasm, at the most recent Olympics prior to filming, in Montreal, Trinidad and Tobago did win gold in one premier event - Hasely Crawford won the men's meter dash. The later camp film Camp Rock used the same real life camp facilities as this movie.

Keith Knight and Peter Hume, who respectively played Fink and The Stomach, died exactly two months apart in real life. Knight died August 22, ; Hume died October 22, Wikipedia states, "Harold Ramis said that [Ivan] Reitman did not know for certain whether [Bill] Murray would be in the movie until he showed up for the first day of filming".

Meanwhile, a tough, inner city punk, nicknamed Flash, is at Camp Sasquash for community service as a counselor-in-training where he sets his sights on the naive and intellectual Cheryl, while Flash's young charges befriend an alien, whom they name Meathead, also staying at the camp for the summer.

Unfortunately, the camp is in serious financial trouble. The owner of a rival, more popular camp wants to buy them out. Therefore they will have to engage in a mean, winner-takes-all competition that will settle the score once and for all.

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