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Tony arranges a dance with the girls' summer camp named Camp Magnolia to humiliate the boys into losing weight, but counselors Tim, Pat, and camp nurse Julie convince everyone to enjoy themselves together.
- $17.6 million
- J. A. C. Redford
- February 17, 1995
That movie has such a special place in my heart and I don't think I'll ever get the crowd reactions I did as a kid every year growing up. The dance scene helped break the tension for a few kids at our end of camp dance too I think.
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There's also a classic overnight camp comedy sense of humor in "Heavyweights" like the kids getting beat in sports by their rival camp, an awkward dance mixer with a normal girls camp and when the kids unload the candy stashes they've snuck in camp into secret compartments -- as well as the run-of-the-mill fart jokes.
Evil Is Petty: Tony goes out of his way to arrange a dance with a nearby girls camp for no other reason than to humiliate the Camp Hope kids into losing weight. Lars gets in on it too, loudly declaring Simms to be the "fattest boy in camp" for no other reason than to single him out.
Heavyweights is a 1995 American comedy film directed by Steven Brill and written by Brill with Judd Apatow. The film centers around a fat camp for kids that is taken over by a fitness guru named Tony Perkis (Ben Stiller).
Gerry (Aaron Schwartz) is not looking forward to his summer vacation, since he'll be spending it at a camp for overweight boys in order to shed pounds. Fortunately, a kindly couple, the Bushkins...
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- Kids & Family, Comedy
- PG
