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.
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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