Gorp (film)

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Gorp
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Joseph Ruben
Written by Jeffrey Konvitz
A. Martin Zweiback
Produced byLou Arkoff
Jeffrey Konvitz
Starring Michael Lembeck
Dennis Quaid
Fran Drescher
Cinematography Michel Hugo
Edited byBill Butler
Music by Paul Dunlap
Distributed by American International Pictures
Release date
  • May 1, 1980 (1980-05-01)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesEnglish
German

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.

Contents

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.

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