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‘Summer Camp’ Review: Diane Keaton And Septuagenarian Cast In Another By-The-Numbers Senior Comedy Attempt To Get Laughs From Boomers
A review of 'Summer Camp' with Diane Keaton, Kathy Bates and Alfre Woodard as seniors out to relive their youth at the summer camp they met at as kids
Sorry if that all sounds a bit cynical because I am a genuine fan of these stars and similar movies like Book Club and 80 For Brady were fun and heartfelt, but Summer Camp turns out beat-for-beat to be exactly what I thought it was going to be, and even target audiences of a certain age still deserve something, anything a little more surprising to keep the heart going strong. The plot is driven by Ginny (Bates) a self-promoting self help guru who still feels her glory days, as her opening narration suggests, took place with her two BFFs as kids and teens in the eight weeks a year they got to spend at Camp Pinnacle in Hendersonville North Carolina. And of course there are even suggestions of senior romance, particularly for the very reluctant and awkwardly nervous Nora which has Keaton still doing her Annie Hallisms with the mature and balanced Stevie D played with nice restraint by Levy who gets a chance to show a different side of his talent than movies generally have allowed.
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