Don't knock it 'til you try it.
It's not my favorite food. It's my comfort food.
Recently the question was posed on Cool and Collected...
What movie is, or was, your “go to” Saturday matinee — the comfort movie you always popped into the VCR on a rainy Saturday afternoon...While you might expect me to take this question and set off on another Karate Kid or Ferris Bueller tangent, my go-to movie wasn't either of those.


Poison Ivy features Michael J. Fox as Dennis Baxter -- a Camp Pinewood counselor who falls for the camp nurse Rhonda (Nancy McKeon). Dennis spends his summer at the boys' camp doing his best to convince Rhonda to leave her stuffy fiance while looking after the Pinewood campers. There's Toby the comedian, Jerry the slick-talker, Brian the poet, and Bobby the star athlete. But who could forget Timmy -- the kid who learns to swim in preparation for the annual Color War competition. Of course, Dennis and Rhonda end up together in the end and all is well at Camp Pinewood.
Poison Ivy is my cinematic crackers and milk.
It's not my favorite movie. It's my comfort movie.
Be sure to check out some of the other responses to the comfort-movie question. A full list of other participating blogs can be found over at Cool and Collected.
7 comments:
Oh wow!!! I had forgotten all about that movie! I saw it one time on TV and really liked it!!! Nice one!
It's definitely a forgotten gem. Pick up a copy sometime if you get a chance!
I've never seen this one. Need to catch it and High School USA. I do love summer camp movies too...
Shawn -- There's no doubt in my mind you'd love this movie. With Alex P. Keaton and Jo Polniaczek, it's impossible for this one to fail...
I got High School USA at the dollar store a few years ago, amazingly. It was weird seeing Michael J. Fox and Crispin Glover together *before* Back to the Future.
I need to catch Poison Ivy again. Soon. Haven't seen it in ages.
Jeff! Now THERE is a movie I need to see again!
My brothers and I (ages 11, 9 and 6 when the movie came out) LOVED this movie as kids. I recently found it, in its entirety, on YouTube and got to watch it for the first time in over 20 years. I'm not kidding when I say we wore out the tape we had recorded it on. It was one of our most treasured TV recordings of all time. So glad to see this movie was cherished by other kids as well!
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