In co-director Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman’s sweet and very funny indie mockumentary the question we ask about each of the workers is: What are these adults doing there? Like “Clue,”…
Courtesy of Sundance Institutebrings to mind another comedy that debuted here years ago: “Wet Hot American Summer.”
Acting teacher Amos and music theory head Rebecca-Diane were campers for 11 years themselves, and have been counselors — and suffocating best friends — for a decade. Amos is impossibly hard on the children, while Rebecca-Diane is obsessed with herself. The thirty-somethings long to be professional actors, but do nothing about it. Amos proudly refers to himself as “a performer who is a full-time acting teacher.
Half the film is devoted to class and rehearsals for “Joan Still” — Nathan Lee Graham and Owen Thiele are hoots as the choreographer and costumer, respectively — and the other half concerns the imminent foreclosure on the camp and the efforts of the ritzier Camp Lakeside to buy their land and demolish the place. Patti Harrison plays the conniving, flirty hedge fund business manager of Lakeside who tries to woo impressionable Troy.
Platt’s Amos is a bit of a jerk, but gets laughs. And I’ve heard rumors that the theater industry has a jerk or six.
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