Caddyshack (1980)

User Rating:

7.3/10   

Director:

Harold Ramis

Writers:

Brian Doyle-Murray (written by) &
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Release Date:

25 July 1980 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Sport

Tagline:

At last, a comedy that bites!

Plot:

An exclusive golf course has to deal with a brash new member and a destructive dancing gopher.

Plot Keywords:

Golf | Golf Course | Judge | Gopher | Caddy

Cast

Chevy Chase	...	Ty Webb
Rodney Dangerfield	...	Al Czervik
Ted Knight	...	Judge Elihu Smails
Michael O'Keefe	...	Danny Noonan
Bill Murray	...	Carl Spackler
Sarah Holcomb	...	Maggie O'Hooligan
Scott Colomby	...	Tony D'Annunzio
Cindy Morgan	...	Lacey Underall
Dan Resin	...	Dr. Beeper
Henry Wilcoxon	...	The Bishop
Elaine Aiken	...	Mrs. Noonan
Albert Salmi	...	Mr. Noonan
Ann Ryerson	...	Grace
Brian Doyle-Murray	...	Lou Loomis
Hamilton Mitchell	...	Motormouth

Runtime:

98 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Glen Glenn Sound)

Certification:

Iceland:L | Canada:14A | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:R | West Germany:16 | Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Boca Raton Resort & Club - 501 East Camino Real, Boca Raton, Florida, USA

Company:

Orion Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

In the scene where the Bishop (played by veteran actor Henry Wilcoxon) is having his best round of golf ever during a thunderstorm, he misses an easy putt, looks skyward and yells "rat farts!", and is immediately struck down by a bolt of lightning. The background music in this scene was from Cecil B. DeMille's classic The Ten Commandments (1956), in which Wilcoxon played the part of Pentaur.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Lacey dives off the board during the pool scene, it's clearly a stunt double with longer hair.

Quotes:

Al Czervik: [breaks wind at a dinner] Whoa, did somebody step on a duck?

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in "The Simpsons: Burns, Baby Burns (#8.4)" (1996)

Soundtrack:

We're in the Money

"Animal House" with balls....

Golf balls, that is.

Granted, this one doesn't have Bluto, Flounder or Pinto.

Does have a gopher, though.

The plot's invariably the same: the haves against the have-nots. But the war between the classes isn't the issue here. It's laughs, and plenty of them, all served up on an eight iron on the main fairway.

What fan of slob comedy doesn't know and love "Caddyshack"? The cast and crew knows what works and they milk it for all they can. Knight's at his blustering best, Dangerfield in full dominance, Chase in all his SNL-dazed glory, Murray on a comedic tear throughout, a gopher just trying to get by. And then there's Danny Noonan (O'Keefe) who just wants to go to college and make something of himself, caddying in the meantime.

I know people who can quote every scene of this film. I'm not that far gone yet, but there are choice scenes all the way throughout. Dangerfield's intro, the golf club dinner, the swimming pool scene, Chevy's Zen-assisted golf shots, the Bishop's game, the climactic golf contest. There's plenty more, but space is limited.

And through it all, the best cast you could ever hope for in this genre. Best gopher, too.

If you haven't seen "Caddyshack" and call yourself a connoisseur of this kind of film, you deserve to have Bill Murray practice for the Masters in your begonias.

Nine stars. And remember: a donut with no holes is a danish.