Meatball's plot centers on low-rent Camp North Star's head counselor Tripper Harrison (Bill Murray), who revels in practical jokes, ups ?the self-esteem of downtrodden campers, leads a competition ...

Writer Rich Cohen celebrates 1979's 'Meatballs,' a film less important for being great cinema (it wasn't) than for inaugurating the persona that would define Gen-X's most perfectly sarcastic star, ...

Meatballs is a 1979 comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman. The plot revolves around a head counselor of a summer camp, and a shy 11-year-old boy attending it. The head counselor befriends the boy and ...

Meatballswas a blockbuster hitwhen it first appearedin the summer of 1979. It's now out as a specially re-mastered DVD under the supervision of Reitman.The extrasinclude a bonus "making of" ...

Where’s Tripper when you need him? asks one Internet fan of the classic summer camp comedy “Meatballs.” In the age of summer computer camps, all-star soccer training and grammar cram courses, what all ...