“Summer Camp” is only mildly interesting as another entry in the Keaton-verse.
The Diane Keaton Industrial Complex is a fascinating and understudied media mini-phenomenon. Once or twice a year for the past six or so years, she anchors an ensemble comedy about the perils and pleasures of getting older, surrounded by a fabulous, Oscar-worthy cast, in which she essentially plays “Diane Keaton,” or a cartoonishly frazzled, overdressed caricature of “Diane Keaton.
The latest of these ventures is “Summer Camp,” in which Kathy Bates, Alfre Woodard, Dennis Haysbert, Eugene Levy and Beverly D’Angelo have received their summons to report for duty, with Castille Landon as writer/director. Keaton plays workaholic widow Nora who is pressured into her 50-year camp reunion by her friend, celebrity self-help guru Ginny Moon , alongside their third pal, emergency room nurse Mary .
There are sparks of insight that do come floating to the top, before they’re undercut by some prank or pratfall, or, regretfully, a food fight . Landon’s script touches on some topics and themes that could be interesting to explore in a different genre, like Ginny Moon’s manipulations of her friends through her self-help slogans , or Mary’s realization she’s trapped in a toxic marriage to an incompetent husband .
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