Bad Counselors

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Bad Counselors

PG-13

Jul 2026

1h 45m

Comedy

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Two frat bros must become church bros, fast. After one wild night ends in handcuffs and a campus police escort, two best friends are slapped with 120 hours of community service due in two weeks, or they're expelled. Their genius plan? Pose as counselors at a local Christian youth camp, where every sing along, campfire devotional, and trust fall counts toward the clock. Just one problem (okay, three): they don't like kids, they hate camping, and they have barely set foot in a church. Now they'll have to learn the lingo, fake the faith, and hide the flask all while dodging suspicious pastors, prankster campers and the cutest co-ed counselors they've ever seen. Can two party boys lie their way to redemption? Or will their house of half-truths come crashing down before the closing bonfire? Either way, they'd better start praying for a hedge of protection.

Guy Lodge

Variety

1d

It can’t help feeling like something of a zucchini-bread movie: more wholesome than it looks, in the manner of sweet treats devised by parents to smuggle vegetable content into their children, but ultimately less fun too.

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Rachel Wagner

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5d

If you are a Christian looking for a sweet faith-based film you'll enjoy this. Matt Cornett is great

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Al Alexander

Movies Thru the Spectrum

Jul 21

B

The summer camp shenanigans in "Bad Counselors" are not without sin, which is somewhat surprising given its faith-based origins. And Chris Dowling’s film is all the better for it.

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Avi Offer

NYC Movie Guru

Jul 21

A funny, witty and heartfelt fish-out-of-water comedy.

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Julie

2d

Some parts were silly, but overall very uplifting.

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Martha

3d

I love the humor in this movie. It was a great story, and I loved the characters. I highly recommend this great Christian comedy movie.

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jesse v

4d

college party life = bad, apparently. I wish the story didn't have the religious aspect here. I'd suppose they can't explicitly show the main duo doing hijinks because of ratings. Like all the actors are excellent, but only if there was a non-kid-family story instead especially the main character. Also a couple of editing mistakes here

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Adam

4d

This movie is A BLAST!

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Sandra C

4d

Funny and cute. Had some good learning points.

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Jasmine

4d

loved it best movie I've seen

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Synopsis

Two frat bros must become church bros, fast. After one wild night ends in handcuffs and a campus police escort, two best friends are slapped with 120 hours of community service due in two weeks, or they're expelled. Their genius plan? Pose as counselors at a local Christian youth camp, where every sing along, campfire devotional, and trust fall counts toward the clock. Just one problem (okay, three): they don't like kids, they hate camping, and they have barely set foot in a church. Now they'll have to learn the lingo, fake the faith, and hide the flask all while dodging suspicious pastors, prankster campers and the cutest co-ed counselors they've ever seen. Can two party boys lie their way to redemption? Or will their house of half-truths come crashing down before the closing bonfire? Either way, they'd better start praying for a hedge of protection.

Director: Chris Dowling
Producer: Chris Roark, Houston Bradley, Chris Dowling, Rodney Eldridge, Kristopher Galuska, Chris Fenton, Robert Crotty
Screenwriter: Taylor Grabowsky, Ryan Gunnarson, Dexter Masland
Distributor: Fathom Entertainment
Production Co: Zero Gravity Management
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 22, 2026, Limited
Runtime: 1h 45m