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Poison Ivy is a american film of genre Comedy released in USA on 10 february 1985 with Michael J. Fox

Poison Ivy (1985)

Poison Ivy
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Released in USA 10 february 1985
Length 1h37
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Romantic comedy,    Romance
Rating60% 3.001813.001813.001813.001813.00181

Poison Ivy is a 1985 comedy television movie starring Michael J. Fox, directed by Larry Elikann, and written by Bennett Tramer. The film premiered on Sunday February 10, 1985, was produced by NBC, and aired just months before Fox's feature film breakthrough Back to the Future and follow-up Teen Wolf.



^ Thomas, Kevin (1985-02-10). "Movies of the Week". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2014-06-05.

Synopsis

Michael J. Fox plays camp counselor Dennis Baxter, who works at a boys' summer camp called Camp Pinewood, located in Clifton, Maine. He falls in love with the new camp nurse Rhonda and spends the summer trying to convince her to leave her fiancé for him. Baxter's campers include the slick-talking Jerry Disbro, the sensitive writer Brian (who also has a crush on Rhonda), the baseball star Bobby, the overweight comedian Toby, and the shy Timmy Mezzy who is afraid of the water and wants to run away. Jerry ends up becoming the camp con man, operating such scams as a letter writing concession using Brian, turning the P.X. into "his own personal candy store", and making outlandish demands to help win Bobby his much-coveted spot on the Varsity baseball team by acting as his agent. Along with Bobby, he hatches a plan to sneak over to the neighboring girls' camp to visit a girl he met on the train ride to camp. Timmy is always finding new and creative ways to escape, including busting out in a laundry truck and trying to sneak out by way of the girls' camp across the lake dressed in drag. The camp is run by 'Big Irv' Klopper and his wife Margo (much to her apparent displeasure). Baxter's arch-rival is fellow counselor Ike, who is much more serious about his job than Baxter. Ike is not at all popular among the campers and is seen as being something of a "Square", having been educated in a military school. Maintenance man Walter carries around a red-stained axe and is rumored to be a murderer.

Actors

Michael J. Fox

(Dennis Baxter)
Nancy McKeon

(Rhonda Malone)
Caren Kaye

(Margo Klopper)
Adam Baldwin

(Ike Dimick)
Robert Klein

('Big Irv' Klopper)
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