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, 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
Danny Noonan works as a caddie at the exclusive Bushwood Country Club to earn money to pay for college. Danny caddies for Ty Webb, a mischievous lothario and the son of one of Bushwood's co-founders. Danny tries to curry favor with Judge Elihu Smails, the country club's haughty co-founder and director of the caddie scholarship program, by caddying for him. Meanwhile, Carl Spackler, a mentally unstable greenskeeper, hunts a potentially destructive gopher reported by Smails. Spackler attempts to kill it with a rifle and high-pressure hose but fails.
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 | act birdie buy caddie christen country club double or nothing draw entertain even expect fourth of july game golf course gopher greenskeeper hang i\'m alright independence day joint lose lothario mental disorder mentally unstable nothing nouveau riche real estate developer to go wrong wait staff waiting staff yacht club |
musicBy | Johnny Mandel |
producer | Douglas Kenney |
productionCompany | Orion Pictures |
publisher | Warner Bros. |
recordedAt | Florida |
theme | satirical screwball comedy sports comedy |