The Beaver

The Beaver

Movie |

Depression | Puppet

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  • Genre(s): Drama
  • Language(s): English
  • Director(s): Jodie Foster, Dianne Dreyer, Doug Torres, Francisco Ortiz, Mirashyam Blakeslee See all Crew
  • Cast(s): Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, Jennifer Lawrence, Anton Yelchin, Zachary Booth See all Cast & Crew
  • Duration: 1h 31min
  • Music: Tom Johnson,Alexandra Patsavas,Michael Silvers,Lora Hirschberg,Marcelo Zarvos
  • Award(s): Young Artist 2012 (Won)
    Movies for Grownups 2012 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: Tuner, The Devil Wears Prada 2
  • Story:
    Suffering from a severe case of depression, toy company CEO Walter Black (Mel Gibson) begins using a beaver hand puppet to help him open up to his family. With his father seemingly going insane, adolescent son Porter (Anton Yelchin) pushes for his parents to get a divorce. Jodie Foster directs and co-stars as Walter's wife in this dark comedy that also features Riley Thomas Stewart and Jennifer Lawrence.
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6.6/10
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STORY AND RATINGS

Story
Suffering from a severe case of depression, toy company CEO Walter Black (Mel Gibson) begins using a beaver hand puppet to help him open up to his family. With his father seemingly going insane, adolescent son Porter (Anton Yelchin) pushes for his parents to get a divorce. Jodie Foster directs and co-stars as Walter's wife in this dark comedy that also features Riley Thomas Stewart and Jennifer Lawrence.
Ratings

6.6/10

IMDb

AWARDS

Won
Young Artist Award

Best Performance in a Feature Film Young Actor Ten and Under | 2012 | Riley Thomas

Yoga Award

Worst Foreign Director | 2012 | Jodie

Nominations
Movies for Grownups Award

Best Grownup Love Story | 2012 | Mel

Best Actor | 2012 | Mel

CinEuphoria Award

Best Screenplay International Competition | 2012 | Kyle

Best Cinematography International Competition | 2012 | Hagen

Best Supporting Actress International Competition | 2012 | Jennifer

Best Supporting Actor International Competition | 2012 | Anton

Best Director International Competition | 2012 | Jodie

Best Actor International Competition | 2012 | Mel

Best Film International Competition | 2012 | Steve

GMS Award

Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Over 20 Million Dollars | 2012 | Alexandra

Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Over Million Dollars For and | 2012 | Alexandra

Prism Award

Performance in a Feature Film | 2012 | Anton

Feature Film Mental Health | 2012

BOX OFFICE

Budget 21,000,000 USD

Box Office Collection 970,816 USD

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

Before 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.

Jodie Foster approached originally Kristen Stewart for the role of Norah, remembering their experience in Panic Room (2002), but the actress was committed to the Twilight franchise.

Jim Carrey and Steve Carell were previously attached to play the lead character.

The screenplay for this film was featured in the 2008 Blacklist; a list of the "most liked" unmade scripts of the year.

First of two movies released in 2011 to star both Jennifer Lawrence and Anton Yelchin.

Popular Dialogues

"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."

"Norah: I'm not okay, not at all, the truth is, I'm missing something. The thing I loved the most, the face I wish were in the front row right now, the brother I'll never get back. So what do I do with that? What do any of us do? Besides lie. This is what I believe, right now, in this auditorium, there is someone who is with you, someone who is willing to pick you up, dust you off, kiss you, forgive you, put up with you, wait for you, carry you, love you. So while everything may not be okay, one thing I know is true, you do not have to be alone."

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