Father and Scout is a 1994 comedy film, starring Bob Saget and Brian Bonsall. The film was written by Sheldon Bull and Hoyt Hilsman and directed by Richard Michaels. PLOT Spencer Paley is a neurotic, sarcastic, cowardly writer from Los Angeles married to Donna and has a ten year old son Michael in sixth grade. During a soccer game Michael is injured by a player on the opposing team. Knowing how important the game is to him, Donna encourages Michael to get up and go forward playing the game. However when he asks Spencer for his advice, Spencer tells him to sit out because “it’s just a stupid game.” Although Spencer cares for his son, he is not very active and takes Michael to the movies to spend time with him. Donna tells Spencer she admires his way of bonding with Michael but feels they need to do “more manly, outdoor activities.” Spencer then agrees to be more active outdoors with Michael. While sitting down to dinner, Donna reminds Michael to show Spencer a letter he received from his school. The letter is an invitation for a “dad and lad” weekend, a camping trip at a camp on Catalina Island. Donna tells Spencer that all of the fathers and male students are attending the trip from Michael’s sixth grade class. Michael implies to Spencer he will be disappointed if he is the only student not to go on the trip. Spencer reluctantly agrees to attend so he doesn’t disappoint his son, but reminds Donna that he is not the type for the outdoors or camping because Spencer’s father made him go to a summer camp in his youth which Spencer hated because he was bullied. Spencer never went camping again after. After going through treacherous Los Angeles traffic, Spencer goes to the harbor where the fathers and their sons will depart on a 3 hour boating trip to Catalina. Spencer is then introduced to the Scoutmaster who is the leader of the camping trip, and is also Micahel’s physical education teacher, and meets two fathers and their sons from Michael’s class, one being a clumsy and cowardly film editor Aaron Deutch and his disillusioned, outspoken son Brent, and Chet Johansen a gruff and arrogant firefighter and former United States Marine, and his bratty, spoiled son Chip. The fathers and sons arrive at nearly midnight on Friday and load their camping