Beaver

If you continue to be fascinated by this talented, volatile, messed-up man, it's worth experiencing what may be Gibson's finest performance to date.
-- Dana Stevens, Slate

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The Beaver

Two-time Academy Award winner Jodie Foster directs and co-stars with two-time Academy Award winner Mel Gibson in THE BEAVER, an emotional story about a man on a journey to rediscover his family and restart his life. Plagued by his own demons, Walter Black was once a successful toy executive and family man who now suffers from depression. No matter what he tries, Walter can't seem to get himself back on track...until he finds a beaver hand puppet.

“If you continue to be fascinated by this talented, volatile, messed-up man, it's worth experiencing what may be Gibson's finest performance to date.” (Dana Stevens, Slate)

“I suppose the perfect ending to the chapter would be to report that The Beaver is a masterpiece. It isn't quite, but it does offer an astonishing and resonant performance by Gibson, who spends most of the movie playing two simultaneous characters, often in the same shot.” (Andrew O’Hehir, Salon)
PG-13
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Web Site
http://www.thebeav…
Runtime
91
Language
English
Director
Jodie Foster
Cast
Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, Anton Yelchin
FEATURED REVIEW
Andrew O’Hehir, Salon

Even before Mel Gibson's most recent set of personal and legal difficulties -- i.e., the "revelation" that he sometimes behaves like an unbelievable prick, and may be dangerously unstable -- "The Beaver" was always going to be a weird footnote to his career. But both within the universe of Hollywood ...

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