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Leave It to Beaver is a american film of genre Drama directed by Andy Cadiff released in USA on 22 august 1997 with Christopher McDonald
Leave It to Beaver (1997)
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Add to a movie listLeave It to Beaver is a 1997 film that is a remake of the TV situation comedy series of the same name. There are many in-jokes related to the original series within the movie. The film features all the original regular characters, all played by new actors. It also took the unusual route of placing the original sitcom characters, with their 1950s fashion sense and 1950s sitcom family morality, in a contemporary 1990s setting, drawing humor from the resulting culture clash.
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Beaver (Cameron Finley) gets his heart set on a bicycle in a store window, but does not think his parents will shell out that money for it. Eddie Haskell (Adam Zolotin) tells him that if he sucks up to his father (Christopher McDonald), by signing up for football, he will be sure to get it on his upcoming birthday. He enrolls on the football team and doggedly endures the practices, despite his disadvantage of being smaller than most his teammates. As Eddie predicted, Ward is glad Beaver signed up for football, as evidenced by a brief fantasy Ward has of Beaver making a touchdown while several professional football players all fail to tackle him. However, the first game of the season ends poorly when he passes the ball to a kid on the opposing team when he mistakingly remembered him as a friend from summer camp. On the first day of school five days later, Ward and June (Janine Turner) tell Wally to drop Beaver off and pick him up for a few days because he has never ridden his bike there before. At school he sits beside a very pretty girl named Susan Akatsu (Brenda Song) and has a kind teacher named Miss Landers (Grace Phillips). After school Eddie asks Wally to come to the soda shop to see him flirt with Karen (Erika Christensen). Eddie does not want Beaver to follow them, so Wally leaves him alone at the bike rack telling him he will be back in a second.Actors
Christopher McDonald
(Ward Cleaver)
Janine Turner
(June Cleaver)
Cameron Finley
(Beaver Cleaver)
Erik von Detten
(Wally Cleaver)
Erika Christensen
(Karen)
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