Up the Creek

Up the Creek (1984)

Who says a bunch of boobs can't win a race?

Bob McGraw is in his 12th year of college, goofing his way through life. Bob, Irwing, Gonzer and Max are the four losers forced and bribed to represent their university in an intercollegiate raft race. Forced and bribed into this role, they make some friends, the lovely Heather Merriweather, but mostly enemies, among others a whole team of marines, and preppy IVY-leaguers determined to win.

Date of release
1984-04-06
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (99)
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Robert Butler

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Oregon

Up the Creek is a 1984 American comedy film directed by Robert Butler and starring Tim Matheson, Dan Monahan, Stephen Furst, Jeff East, Sandy Helberg, Blaine Novak, James B. Sikking, Jennifer Runyon, and John Hillerman.

Production notes

The film was made by Sam Arkoff, who had resigned from American International several years previously and moved into production. He had made films such as Q the Winged Serpent.

The movie was known during production as Rafts. It was budgeted at $7.5 million which Sam Arkoff said was "the most I ever spent on a picture."

The movie was made by Orion, which had taken over Filmways, the company that went bankrupt after it bought American International. "Even though the company is different, it still has vestiges of American International," said Arkoff. "The exchanges are manned by people I hired. Most of the sales managers worked for me."

Tim Matheson was paid $200,000 to play the lead. This film was filmed in Bend, Oregon.

Writer Jim Kouf later said Robert Butler "was not a great comedy director, he missed a lot of jokes."

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