Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
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.
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
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
- Danny Capri — Danny
- Hakeem Abdul-Samad — Moustafa-Hakeem Jones
- Todd Loyd — Chip Ozgood
- Andrew Woodworth — Pennington
- Richard Speight Jr. — Brooks
- Directed
- John Cherry
- Written
- John Cherry, Coke Sams
Production
- Rating
- 5.3 / 10 · 193 ratings
- Studio
- Silver Screen Partners II, Touchstone Pictures, Emshell Producers, Silver Screen Partners III
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1987 · You’re hereErnest Goes to Camp
Where it starts.
Ernest Saves Christmas
1988
Ernest Goes to Jail
1990
Ernest Scared Stupid
1991
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
