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Título original: The Beaver

2011
12
1 h 31 min

AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb

6,6/10

51 mil

SUA AVALIAÇÃO

A troubled husband and executive adopts a beaver hand-puppet as his sole means of communicating.

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Drama

Um marido executivo problemático adota um fantoche de castor como sua única forma de comunicação.Um marido executivo problemático adota um fantoche de castor como sua única forma de comunicação.Um marido executivo problemático adota um fantoche de castor como sua única forma de comunicação.

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AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb

6,6/10

51 mil

SUA AVALIAÇÃO

Veja as informações de produção no IMDbPro

Prêmios
- 2 vitórias e 12 indicações no total

Curiosidades
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.

Erros de gravação
When 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.

Citações
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.

Cenas durante ou pós-créditos
A letter or two from each cast/crew member remains and forms part of the next credit.

Conexões
Featured in Trailer Failure: Bieber Meets Beaver (2010)

Trilhas sonoras
Kung Fu Underscore
Composed by Jim Helms

Avaliações de usuários174

Avaliação em destaque

8/10

Mel nails the accent!

It really sounds to me like Mel Gibson has modelled the voice and the accent for the puppet on Ray Winstone which shouldn't surprise me considering they have worked together in the past. However, top marks to Mel for that one because you really could be forgiven for thinking Ray did a voice-over for the puppet.

In general this is not the usual style of film I would watch but I really must say I was most pleasantly surprised at how engaging it was. For me at least, this was down to the Beaver (yes I realise how that sounds) but the remarkable thing is that I forgot it was a puppet controlled and voiced by Mel. I really began to see it as a complete separate character and it just gave the film whole other dimension.

Performances from Gibson and Foster were excellent (as you would expect). Their acting was totally spot on, never once seeming over the top or forced. Jodie Foster has done a sterling job on the directors chair skilfully taking the viewer on a journey in what I would have thought not a particularly easy film to direct. There are some humorous moments but this is not a comedy. You will occasionally laugh, and at times you will tense up during some of Gibsons darker moments. But that is a job well done from all.

This is certainly not a film for everyone but if you like a movie that's choc full to the brim with the human element, excellent acting and directing then I really would recommend it.