Poison Ivy

Poison Ivy is a 1985 comedy television movie starring Michael J. Fox. Directed by Larry Elikann, the screenplay was written by Bennett Tramer. The film was premiered on Sunday February 10, 1985 and produced by NBC and aired just months before Fox's feature film breakthrough Back to the Future and follow-up Teen Wolf. Michael J. Fox plays camp counselor Dennis Baxter, who works at a boys' summer camp called Camp Pinewood, located in Clifton, Maine. He falls in love with the new camp nurse Rhonda (Nancy McKeon) and spends the summer trying to convince her to leave her fiancee for him. Baxter's campers include the slick-talking Jerry Disbro, the sensitive writer Brian, the baseball star Bobby, the overweight comedian Toby, and the shy Timmy Mezzy who is afraid of the water and wants to run away. The camp is run by 'Big Irv' Klopper and his wife Margo. Baxter's arch-rival is fellow counselor Ike, who is much more serious about his job than Baxter. Maintenance man Walter carries around a...