Ernest Goes to Camp

Ernest Goes to Camp is a 1987 comedy film directed by John R. Cherry III and starring Jim Varney. It is the second film to feature the character of Ernest P. Worrell and was shot in Burns, Tennessee. The movie received a PG rating from the MPAA. Jim Varney reprises his role of Ernest P. Worrell, now working as a maintenance man at a summer camp and hoping to become a counselor. With his typical enthusiasm, he pours himself into the role and quick... more

Ernest Goes to Camp is a 1987 comedy film directed by John R. Cherry III and starring Jim Varney. It is the second film to feature the character of Ernest P. Worrell and was shot in Burns, Tennessee. The movie received a PG rating from the MPAA. Jim Varney reprises his role of Ernest P. Worrell, now working as a maintenance man at a summer camp and hoping to become a counselor. With his typical enthusiasm, he pours himself into the role and quickly becomes a valuable addition to the staff, in particular for his passion at learning the specialized sign language used by the camp's owner, Chief St. Cloud (Iron Eyes Cody), who does not speak English. Though initially hired as a handy man, Ernest gets his chance at counseling when he is assigned a small group of juvenile delinquents that the regular counselors are hesitant to take on--primarily because the group hospitalized their first counselor, Stennis, by pushing his lifeguard chair into the lake while he was sitting in it. Ernest... less