Day: February 18, 2014

There’s a funny forest of a movie lost within the trees of Nature Calls, an otherwise forgettable 79-minute movie about a lackluster Boy Scout troop that finds its luster out in the woods. Forgettable entirely (and stars Patton Oswalt, Johnny Knoxville, Rob Riggle and Maura Tierney might agree) if not for it existing as the last big-screen role of the late, great comedian Patrice O’Neal. Nature Calls screened at SXSW in 2012, a few months after O’Neal died, and showed up a year ago on DVD. O’Neal plays the dad one of the Boy Scouts. He has a grudge against...