The end of the 1970s were a tumultuous time as America emerged from a decade of soaring inflation, political unrest, Watergate and Vietnam.
By 1980, Ronald Reagan had won office and movie-going audiences were primed for a more cheeky and optimistic era of consumerism, MTV and Spielberg blockbusters. This proved to be the ideal cultural backdrop for Harold Ramis to make his directorial debut with Caddyshack (1980).
Ramis was already an established writer with credits that included (1978) and so proved to be a natural choice to direct a film that had been pitched to the studio as ‘Animal House on a golf course’. Even better, the script
