Hacker Cinema
Ernest Goes to Camp
1987 · Film · 92 min
Directed by John Cherry
Ernest, a lovable loser who works as a summer camp handyman and dreams of becoming a guidance counselor, must find a way to inspire a group of juvenile delinquents while stopping a shady strip mining company from closing the camp as well.
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I'm surprised this has received so many upvotes in the past 2 hours. It rang like click-bait playing a race card. Maybe someone knows more about the details than I do, but exactly what injustice is being done? This is similar to when a plant is closed and the employees are upset. The plant owner didn't owe the employees a job. The relocation package offered to the tenants is...amazing...and would probably not have been offered to a trailer park of people (whatever race) in Florida on prime beach front property. They would have been told to vacate, no relocation package.
I grew up on the Ernest movies...like "Ernest goes to camp." I remember many years ago when it dawned on me that the "evil corporation" wanting to shut down the summer camp was simply acting in their best financial interest. Something that they should do. It's sad that the film makers decided to teach false entitlement instead of enlightening how the world really works, and how the viewer can become part of the true market (and not just victims of it).