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When Nature Calls is a film of genre Comedy directed by Charlie Kaufman released in USA on 13 september 1985 with Gates McFadden

When Nature Calls (1985)

When Nature Calls
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Released in USA 13 september 1985
Length 1h28
Directed by ,    
Genres Comedy
Rating46% 2.328782.328782.328782.328782.32878

When Nature Calls is a 1985 spoof comedy written and directed by Charles Kaufman and starring Academy Award nominee David Strathairn in an early performance. The film was distributed by Charles Kaufman's brother, Lloyd Kaufman, of Troma Entertainment (sister Susan Kaufman worked as an art director and their father Stanley appeared as an actor in the film).

In the tradition of Kentucky Fried Movie and The Naked Gun, the film is packed with visual gags, non sequiturs, fake previews for non-existent movies, and, one of the film's more notable sequences, an obscene stop-motion montage involving food products. The (loose) plot of the film follows a man (David Orange) who, fed up with the hassles of city living, decides to move his reluctant family into the woods, only to find out that they're in way over their heads with outdoor living. The video box proudly claims that the film includes the most romantic scene between a woman and a bear shot on celluloid.

The film features cameos from such notable people as baseball legend Willie Mays, professional wrestler Fred Blassie, comedian Morey Amsterdam, and Watergate icon G. Gordon Liddy.

Troma boasts When Nature Calls as one of the company's best comedies. The response from Troma fans has been largely positive as well, with most comparing it to such early Troma comedy classics as The First Turn-On! and Squeeze Play!.

Actors

Gates McFadden
David Strathairn

(Weejun)Morey Amsterdam

(Self)
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