SummerCamp the Movie

By Lonnie Lorenz

Movies about Overnight Summer Campare filled with old cabins, s'mores, bugs, archery, summer love, and much more. Most of the summer camp movies never have a real lifclearly have a less than wholesome appeal. That is until the movie Summercamp! arrived on the scene. This move is a documentary that lets parents take an inside look at the coed summer camp Swift Nature Camp located in the northwoods.

"Summercamp!" shows the true camp experience is eternal and the same for everyone: It is only how you eternalise these experiences that make them special Sunsets over the lake are generic except when the Flaming Lips provide a musical background. Timelessness that's one of the best aspects of camp -- no computer, cell phones or Gameboys at Swift Nature Camp. However, the modern world intrudes kids discuss their ADHD medications. Swift deals with the situations the old fashion way, run'em till they are dog tired.

This sweet and shapeless movie focuses on a handful of youngsters struggling with their feelings. There's little Holly, who resembles a sad Alice in Wonderland and is peculiarly obsessed with chickadees; talkative Spencer, at peace only when reading Tom Clancy; and aggressive Cameron, a delinquent-in-training who cries daily for his mother.

This is what folks are saying about the SummerCamp movie:

Brief bits of real charm, personality and camp-life detail squeeze through, suggesting why some thrive in an oasis of animal worship, outdoor revelry and zero-to-hero popularity that forgives a nerdy rep back home.

Of all the films, fictional or non-, that set out to capture the terrors and wonders of childhood and adolescence, and the treacherous borderline between them, I've hardly seen any that affected me this deeply.

Bug bites, lime Jell-O, homesickness -- "Summercamp!" gets it all, and so what? What can a low-budget, shakily filmed documentary about three weeks at a Wisconsin sleepaway camp tell you that your own gimp-strewn memories can't?

So take a look at the daily life of Swift Nature Camp and Summercamp! at Snagfilms.com

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