Caddyshack
Caddyshack is a 1980 American sports comedy film directed by Harold Ramis, written by Brian Doyle-Murray, Ramis and Douglas Kenney, and starring Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight (his final film role), Michael O'Keefe and Bill Murray with supporting roles by Sarah Holcomb, Cindy Morgan, and Doyle-Murray. It tells the story of a caddie, vying for a caddie scholarship, who becomes involved in a feud on the links between one of the country club's founders and a nouveau riche guest. A subplot involves a greenskeeper who uses extreme methods against an elusive gopher.
Plot
High school student Danny Noonan is anxious about his future, while he hopes to go to college to avoid being stuck in a menial job with no prospects, he is struggling to financially cover tuition. Danny works as a caddie at the exclusive Bushwood country club catering to affluent clientele. Though he usually caddies for Ty Webb, a talented golfer and the free-spirited playboy son of the club's co-founder, Danny volunteers to caddie for the arrogant Judge Elihu Smails, the club's other co-founder and director of the caddie college scholarship program. Meanwhile, mentally unstable greenskeeper Carl Spackler is tasked with killing a destructive gopher driven onto the course by work on the adjacent property development owned by Al Czervik.
More details
author | Brian Doyle-Murray Douglas C. Kenney Harold Ramis |
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director | Harold Ramis |
editor | William C. Carruth |
events | golf |
genre | comedy social |
keywords | birdie buy caddie cheat christen christening ceremony college scholarship program country club dead-end job double or nothing draw expect fourth of july gamble game golf course gopher greenskeeper high school student i\'m alright independence day kenny loggins kill menial job mentally unstable nothing nouveau riche plastic explosive play for money playboy playboy lifestyle property development putt putter scholarship struggle substitute substitution wait staff waiting staff yacht club |
musicBy | Johnny Mandel |
producer | Douglas Kenney |
productionCompany | Orion Pictures |
publisher | Warner Bros. |
recordedAt | Florida |
theme | satirical sports comedy |