Summercamp is a documentary about, yes a summer camp. It follows several kids during a 3 week session at the Swift Nature Camp in Wisconsin. At a short 85 minutes, Summercamp no interviewers, questions, or much of a narrative. Instead it just has various clips of many campers in various activities: swimming, canoeing, talent shows, choosing names for cabins, fighting, being punished, flirting, getting wedgies, etc. I guess relating to modern times, there's a segment about how many of them have ADHD and what medications they're on. I had missed when they added an H to it.
It meanders a bit but does kinda concentrate on two kids. Cameron is an overweight 13.5 year-old who has problems getting along with others and misses his mom. Holly is a 9 year-old obsessed with chickadees and small stuffed animals. This starts off cute then becomes discomfiting and finally poignant.
It's a pleasant film, with some funny lines, but isn't in the class of Spellbound or Mad Hot Ballroom.
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The didn't really ADD the H, ADD and ADHD are two separate "diagnoses". the ADHD has been around since I was a kid..
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