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Caddyshack

Some people just don't belong.

1980 · 1h 38m · R Comedy
Directed by Harold Ramis

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Overview

At an exclusive country club, an ambitious young caddy, Danny Noonan, 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 favour of the elitist Judge Smails, and then the caddy golf tournament which Smails sponsors.

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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes

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All reviews
73%
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Rotten

The first-time director, Harold Ramis, can't hold it together: the picture lurches from style to style (including some ill-placed whimsy with a gopher puppet) and collapses somewhere between sitcom and sketch farce.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Rotten

Caddyshack never finds a consistent comic note of its own, but it plays host to all sorts of approaches from its stars, who sometimes hardly seem to be occupying the same movie.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh

A pleasantly loose-limbed sort of movie with some comic moments, most of them belonging to Mr. Dangerfield.

Vincent Canby, New York Times
Rotten

This vaguely likable, too-tame comedy falls short of the mark.

Variety
Rotten

If you're still at the age when farting and nose-picking seem funny, then Caddyshack should knock you dead.

Time Out

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