A troubled husband and executive adopts a beaver hand-puppet as his sole means of communication.A troubled husband and executive adopts a beaver hand-puppet as his sole means of communication.A troubled husband and executive adopts a beaver hand-puppet as his sole means of communication.
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- 2 wins & 12 nominations
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- TriviaBefore Summit Entertainment settled for a release date in Spring 2011, this film had been shelved, due to Mel Gibson allegedly assaulting his ex-girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva.
- GoofsWhen Anton Yelchin's character bangs his head into the wall and it goes through the side of the house, that's impossible as shown. The cedar shake siding is not shown as held to the side of the house with anything, whereas in reality is has to be nailed down. The house would have some cladding such as plywood to nail the shakes to, and then a barrier such as asphalt or homewrap, at the very least. It is not possible to make a small hole in the interior wall and push one shake off the outside of the house in the same location.
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Walter Black: We reach a point where, in order to go on, we have to wipe the slate clean. We start to see ourselves as a box that we're trapped inside and no matter how we try and escape, self help, therapy, drugs, we just sink further and further down. The only way to truly break out of the box is to get rid of it all together... I mean, you built it in the first place. If the people around you are breaking your spirit, who needs them? Your wife who pretends to love you, your son who can't even stand you. I mean, put them out of their misery. Starting over isn't crazy. Crazy is being miserable and walking around half asleep, numb, day after day after day. Crazy is pretending to be happy. Pretending that the way things are is the way they have to be for the rest of your bleeding life. All the potential, hope, all that joy, feeling, all that passion that life has sucked out of you. Reach out, grab a hold of it and snatch it back from that bloodsucking rabble.
- Crazy creditsA letter or two from each cast/crew member remains and forms part of the next credit.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Trailer Failure: Bieber Meets Beaver (2010)
- SoundtracksKung Fu Underscore
Composed by Jim Helms
I think the lure of the film is it gets you involved to the point where you just have to find out how all this insanity is going to wind up although - except for one shocking twist - it's fairly predictable.
In fact, the film becomes very close to being a "movie of the week" or Lifetime -TV stage, but Gibson's character and the great dialog and voice of "The Beaver" (Gibson sounding exactly like Ray Winstone), snaps it back to a story that re-grabs your attention, time after time, with the darkness of mental illness.
Gibson is great as "Walter Black" and Jodie Foster and the rest of the cast hold their own in here.
The film is worth a look; just don't take it seriously as some treatise on depression. It does have some dark, scary moments in between the comedy and melodrama. It's unique in that aspect.
- ccthemovieman-1
- Oct 6, 2011
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- Also known as
- Hải Ly
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- Budget
- $21,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $970,816
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $107,577
- May 8, 2011
- Gross worldwide
- $7,294,800
- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1