Name: Ernest Goes to Camp
Genre: Comedy, Family
Released: 1987-05-22
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Jim Varney, Victoria Racimo, John Vernon, Lyle Alzado, Gailard Sartain

1987·Comedy·1h 32m

6.9

★

Ernest, a lovable loser who works as a summer camp handyman and dreams of becoming a guidance counselor, must find a way to inspire a group of juvenile delinquents while stopping a shady strip mining company from closing the camp as well.

Directed by John Cherry

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Cast

Jim Varney

Ernest P. Worrell

Victoria Racimo

Nurse St. Cloud

John Vernon

Sherman Krader

Lyle Alzado

Bronk Stinson (Foreman)

Gailard Sartain

Jake

Daniel Butler

Eddy

Iron Eyes Cody

Old Indian Chief

Patrick Day

Bobby Wayne

Scott Menville

Crutchfield

Jacob Vargas

Bubba Vargas

Richard Speight Jr.

Brooks

Jeffrey Buckner Ford

Attorney Elliott Blatz

Crew

John Cherry

Director

John Cherry

Screenplay

Martin Erlichman

Executive Producer

Popular Reviews

55 reviews

3.0★ · 03/08/26

lol quite funny

Lathan McMichael

7.0★ · 02/17/26

alot of nostalgia tied into my love for this one

Román Izquierdo

7.0★ · 07/23/25

I FORGOT ERNEST SINGS

kate

6.0★ · 07/05/25

another summer camp movie!

riley wanted to watch “one of the ernest movies” so i figured we should start with the first one.

i really want one of those full body lawn chairs ernest has. need to procure one like, yesterday.

lots of unnecessary native american shit but oh well it was the 80s

Bailey Senelick

ernest did in fact go to camp