Caddyshack
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- intimate
- funny
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / sport, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →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.
Our read · Caddyshack (1980) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · sport entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of Caddyshack
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