‘It was a Boy Scout camp, and I used to be removed from a Boy Scout.’
‘A skater child goes to Boy Scout camp’ sounds a bit like an elevator pitch for a Nineteen Nineties comedy. However for the US comic Whitmer Thomas, it grew to become an all-too-real summer time expertise after his single mom checked right into a rehabilitation facility for alcohol dependancy and he obtained despatched off to a sleepaway camp together with his buttoned-up Boy Scout cousin. That includes Thomas’s polished storytelling abilities, expressive shadow puppetry and an idiosyncratic synth rating, Scout’s Honor faucets into the summer-camp film tropes of yesteryear to type one thing without delay nostalgic and authentic. The brief has depth far past its fish-out-of-water premise, as Thomas confronts coming of age in precarious circumstances with uncooked honesty.
