Camp (2003)

Michael is ready for the prom A musical about young adults who go to a performing arts camp; the action centres on them having fun performing, and on their emotional upsets and successes. As is usual with young adults' feel-good films, there isn't really much of a plot. The film has been criticised for the fact that the performers' voices are dubbed (by themselves, in studio recording); but I think that is excusable.

One of the campers, Michael (Robin de Jesus), is a crossdresser; at the beginning of the film we see that he tried to go to his high school dance in female clothing, and was refused entry. He later receives a written explanation from the authorities, stating that admission is only granted to students wearing either a tuxedo (dinner jacket) or a calf-length dress. He was wearing neither and was accordingly properly refused admission. (Comments a bystander: "So they wouldn't let you in because of your hemline?")


Dancing at the finale He is in drab for most of the rest of the film, but we see him in the final musical number where he performs.

HF October 2006


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