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Meatballs
1979 · Film · 92 min
Directed by Ivan Reitman
Tripper is the head counselor at a budget summer camp called Camp Northstar. In truth, he's young at heart and only marginally more mature than the campers themselves. Tripper befriends Rudy, a loner camper who has trouble fitting in. As Tripper inspires his young charges to defeat rival Camp Mohawk in the annual Olympiad competition, Rudy plays matchmaker between Tripper and Roxanne, a female counselor at Northstar.
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my first thought was "Spaz"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_Qh2Bx6TIM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meatballs_(film)
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=spaz+meatballs&iar=images&t=lm
Classic Murray
"How's the leg? Okay. Yeah, for now, but if you don't win, we'll cut it off." [1]
"Because all the good looking girls would still go out with the guys from Mowhawk because they have all the money." [2]
[1] http://movieclips.com/YhDo-meatballs-movie-rudy-the-rabbit/
[2] http://movieclips.com/nFguU-meatballs-movie-it-just-doesnt-matter/
Meatballs (1979) [1] was always a favorite of mine, although this will date me slightly (!). As a geek and an introvert facing many of the same social challenges as the main character Rudy (Chris Makepeace) it was incredibly reassuring to see someone as edgy and cool (at the time) as Bill Murray in a sort of gentle, yet fun loving and supportive, mentoring role. I didn't have much of that encouragement in my early life, which was filled with basically the opposite ... adults (esp in my school) chumming up to the cool kids and publicly humiliating the tentative ones. Bill's character in the movie, and how he played it on screen, still today serve as a role model for how I try to deal with other people. For me personally, connecting with and supporting the more fragile people around me still is way more appealing, fulfilling, and meaningful for me than just constantly trying to prop up my own status by latching on to the cool, popular crowd.
[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079540/