Caddyshack [20th Anniversary Edition]

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

The smash success Caddyshack became a prototype for countless other wacky T&A-tinged teen comedies of the early 1980s. At an exclusive country club for WASPish snobs, an ambitious young caddy (Michael O'Keefe) from an overpopulated home eagerly pursues a caddy scholarship in hopes of attending college and, in turn, avoiding a job at the lumber yard. In order to succeed, he must first win the favor of the elitist Judge Smails (Ted Knight), then the caddy golf tournament which the good judge sponsors. Of course, there are love interests as well -- one good, one naughty -- not to mention several foes he must vanquish along the way. The story itself serves to string along a series of slapstick scenes involving an obnoxious nouveau riche land developer (Rodney Dangerfield) who wants to turn the site into a condominium community; an oddball, Zen-quoting, millionaire slacker/golf ace (Chevy Chase); and a psychotic groundskeeper (Bill Murray) with a gopher-fixation. Caddyshack was a bona fide hit; throughout the '80s and '90s, director Harold Ramis would continue to create such hits as Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, and Analyze This. ~ Jeremy Beday, Rovi

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: 1
• Number of Discs: 1
• Audio: Dolby Digital Mono
• Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
• Features:
  • Caddyshack: The 19th Hole retrospective documentary
  • Production notes
  • Theatrical trailer
  • Languages & Subtitles: English & Francais (feature film only)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Cast:

  
       Chevy Chase - Ty Webb
       Rodney Dangerfield - Al Czervik
       Bill Murray - Carl Spackler
       Michael O'Keefe - Danny Noonan
       Ted Knight - Judge Smails
       Cindy Morgan - Lacey Underall
       Scott Colomby - Tony D'Annunzio
       Dan Resin - Dr. Beeper
       Henry Wilcoxon - Bishop
       Elaine Aiken - Mrs. Noonan
       Albert Salmi - Noonan
       Allison Caine

• Director:

  Harold Ramis

• Producer:

  Douglas Kenney, Stan Jolly

• Screenwriter:

  Douglas Kenney, Brian Doyle-Murray, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Dave Thomas

• Cinematographer:

  Stevan Larner

• Songwriter:

  Kenny Loggins

• Composer (Music Score):

  Johnny Mandel

• Editor:

  David Bretherton, William Carruth

• Production Designer:

  Stan Jolley

• Art Director:

  George Szeptycki

• Executive Producer:

  Jon Peters

• Production Manager:

  Ted Adams Swanson

• Casting:

  Wallis Nicita

REVIEW:

• The frustrating difficulty of golf makes it the perfect sport to spoof in a movie...and there's no better one than Harold Ramis' 1980 comedy classic Caddyshack. Featuring a plethora of comic superstars, Caddyshack is a virtual cavalcade of gags that range from inspired to twisted to sublimely gross. The cast includes Ted Knight as Bushwood Country Club's anal-retentive owner, Rodney Dangerfield as a super-rich and super-obnoxious contractor, Chevy Chase as an excellent, but very quirky golfer, and Bill Murray as Bushwood's assistant greenskeeper and resident nut-job. In a film loaded with improvised gags and dialogue, it's the very scripted Dangerfield who steals every scene he's in with his trademark barbs laying into Knight's prim-and-proper Judge Smails with remorseless delight. The film's biggest undoing is its lack of a foundation in the script: it can't seem to figure out whether to focus on wry caddy Danny Noonan's (Michael O'Keefe) quest for a scholarship or to stay with its quartet of comedy superstars. Fortunately, while many gag scenes fail to progress the plot, they are genuine gutbusters: Knight launching his putter into a restaurant full of senior citizens, Dangerfield hitting a drive directly into Knight's groin ("I shoulda yelled two"), the "doody-in-the-pool" scene, or the splendid Fourth of July party that culminates in the Judge's nephew guzzling a drink spiked with a cigarette butt. Caddyshack is crude and may lack the finesse and ingenious story of a more notorious comedy classic such as Some Like It Hot, but it has garnered a strong cult fanbase who would certainly argue it as being one of the funniest films ever made. ~ Patrick Legare, Rovi