Caddyshack

Par for this course is three jokes under, a double-eagle. In his first directorial tee-off, Harold Ramis (Groundhog Day, Ghostbusters) takes us to the well-manicured Bushwood Country Club for a day on the green with Judge Elihu Smails (Ted Knight); crusty cofounder of the club; his philandering nephew Ty (Chevy Chase); and the hilariously smarmy developer Al Czervik (Rodney Dangerfield in a role that kept rolling). But the real riot in the rough comes from Carl Spackler (Bill Murray), groundskeeper extraordinaire who has declared war on all burrowing rodents-“In the immortal words of Jean Paul Sartre, ‘Au revoir, gopher.'” For a sports comedy, Caddyshack is a verified bunker buster.

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