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Gorp (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Gorp' is a 1980 American 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 and A. Martin Zweiback, the film follows in the tradition of the 1978 fraternity comedy 'National Lampoon's Animal House', and the 1979 summer camp comedy film 'Meatballs'. 'Gorp' was the penultimate film released by American International Pictures, before 'How to Beat the High Cost of Living' two months later.
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.
Plot
A slapstick comedy about the wacky antics of a group of waiters at a Jewish summer camp in upstate New York.
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
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