They're calling this a niche movie, and that's something I can agree with. But for the other ninety nine percent of us who go to see this film, I'd say it has very limited appeal. And this from someone who had a background role in the picture. More on that later.
I think I understand what the filmmakers were trying to do here with an homage to all those kids attending summer camp for would-be thespians. However, it just didn't come across as entertaining for this viewer. I'll go to bat for the youngsters who made a go of it in this picture, some of them showed remarkable skill, especially the young black boy who sang and danced at the beginning of the story. I can't really identify him from the cast list, but I thought he was pretty talented. The girl who had to leave before the final showing of the play 'Joan, Still' had an exceptional singing voice, and she'll probably do well in future endeavors.
As for my involvement, if you don't blink and catch the scene at the Rotary Club dinner honoring the camp's founder (Amy Sedaris), now in a coma, you might recognize the back of my head, just as I appeared in an episode of "White House Plumbers". I just can't catch a break.
A final observation. This movie was filmed in Warwick, New York at a now unused summer camp going by the name of the Kutz Camp. Being it's so far removed from the Adirondack Mountains, I'll take exception with the name attributed to the camp in the movie. It was called AdirondACTS. Why couldn't they have named it the ACTskills?
