Leave It to Beaver (film)
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| Directed by | Andy Cadiff |
| Produced by | Robert Simonds |
| Written by |
Brian Levant Lon Diamond |
| Based on |
Leave it to Beaver by Bob Mosher Joe Connelly |
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| Music by | Randy Edelman |
| Cinematography | Thomas Del Ruth |
| Edited by | Alan Heim |
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Robert Simonds Productions
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time
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84 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $15 million |
| Box office | $10,925,060 |
Leave It to Beaver is a 1997 film that is a remake of the TV series of the same name. There are many in-jokes related to the series within it. It features all the original regular characters, all played by new actors.
Beaver has his heart set on a model bicycle in a store window, but does not think his parents will buy it for him. Eddie Haskell happens to show up and barge in on them checking it out and invites Beaver into hearing out advice telling him that if he wants the best chances of getting it on his next upcoming birthday is if he signs up for football, which Eddie knows that Beaver's father is a big fan of. Eddie also tells Beaver that once he succeeds in getting that bike, then that is when he resigns any further participation. Beaver acknowledges how much that would be using others which he knows is Eddie's habit of bargaining to others, but however he takes his advice and joins the football team and endures the practices, despite his disadvantage of being smaller than his teammates. Ward is glad Beaver signed up for football unlike June because she believes that he is too young and short for such a risky game, but the first game ends poorly when he in a slip of mind passes the ball to a kid on the opposing team who he remembered as a friend from summer camp. On the first day of school five days later, Ward and June tell Wally to drop Beaver off and pick him up for a few days because he has never ridden his bike there before. He has a kind teacher named Miss Landers. After school Eddie asks Wally to come to the soda shop to see him flirt with Karen. Eddie does not want Beaver to follow them, so Wally leaves him alone at the bike rack telling him they should return shortly.
Beaver is polishing his bike when a punk-dressed teenage boy comes over and asks if he can show him some neat bike tricks. He agrees and the boy shows him some tricks before finally riding off with it. Inside the soda shop, Karen likes Wally and not Eddie. When Wally and Eddie come out of the shop and hear that Beaver's bike was stolen they look for it but can't find it. At the time Ward returns that afternoon, Wally and Beaver are undecided about how he might take it if they broke the bad news to him. During dinner that night, the boys try to cover up the stolen bike plight. Through forcing them to come clean when they do a poor job in doing so, when Ward hears about this, he becomes upset with Beaver, but grows angrier at Wally because he made him responsible for watching Beaver. Over Wally being upset with having to be forced to watch him all the time, in the boys' bedroom, he and Beaver get into a fight which sends Beaver's new computer flying out the window. They almost recover the whole thing safe and sound, though through the last attempts in the process, Wally is left holding onto and pulling in the wire of the monitor and tries to pull it in, but the wire comes loose and breaks, and it crashes into pieces. During the whole fight and computer deal, Ward gets into a discussion with June about the way their sons are, about the whole bike deal, and if maybe he should admit to overreacting some and should go up and apologize for his tirade that the bike matter leads towards. Just as he is on the verge of doing so and extending some trust to them, that is when the monitor breaks and crashes, and finishes off his patience towards them, leading to them ending up becoming grounded.
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