Leave It to Beaver (film)

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Leave It to Beaver
The Beave Is Back!
Directed by	Andy Cadiff Richard Chamberlin
Produced by	Lynn Arost, David Helpern, Ben Myron, Robert Simonds, Rita Smith, Kelly Van Horn
Written by	Bob Mosher, Joe Connelly, Brian Levant, Lon Diamond
Starring	Christopher McDonald, Janine Turner, Cameron Finley, Erik von Detten, Adam Zolotin
Running time	82 min.
Language	English
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Leave It to Beaver is a 1997 film that is a remake of the classic TV series of the same name.

[edit] Plot

Beaver (Cameron Finley) gets his heart set on a bike in the store window. He doesen't know how to get his parents to buy it for him. However, Eddie Haskell (Adam Zolotin) tells Beaver that if he sucks up to his father (Christopher McDonald), by signing up for football, he will be sure to get his bike on his upcoming birthday. Beaver signs up for football despite his small size, and he is tackled and thrown to the ground many times during practices. His father is very proud of him, and on his birthday he gets the bike he always wanted. During his birthday party, Eddie tells Wally (Erik von Detten) about a girl named Karen (Erika Christensen) whom he is desperatly in love with.

On the first day of school five days later, Ward and Judy (Janine Turner) tell Wally to drop Beaver off and pick him up at school for a few days because Beaver has never ridden his bike to school before. At school Beaver sits behind an annoying girl named Judy Hensler (Brighton Hertford) but has a very kind teacher named Miss Landers (Grace Phillips). After school Eddie asks Wally to come in the soda shop to see him flirt with Karen. Wally leaves Beaver alone with the bikes telling him he will be back in a second. Beaver is polishing his bike when a punk teenager (Glenn Walker Harris Jr.) comes over and admires the bike and asks Beaver if he can show him some cool bike tricks. Beaver agrees and the boy shows him some tricks before riding off with the bike. Inside the shop it becomes apparent that Karen likes Wally, not Eddie. When Wally and Eddie come out of the shop and hear that Beaver's bike got stolen they look for it but can't find it. During dinner that night, the boys try to cover up the fact that the bike was stolen, but to no avail. When Ward hears he is very upset not just at Beaver, but at Wally, because Wally wasn't watching Beaver. In the boys bedroom, Wally and Beaver get into a fight which sends the new computer flying out the window. Wally grabs the wire and trys to pull the computer in and does, but the wire to the moniter breaks, falls out the window, and crashes into many pieces.

Beaver decides to skip football practice and study instead, and Wally starts spending more time with Karen now instead of Beaver. When he is caught by Ward for skipping practice, Beaver is told that he can quit the team if he wants, but he doesn't. During the last game, Beaver gets a catch and runs it for a touchdown. By the concession stands, he finds the punk with his bike and takes it back. Ward reads Beaver a bedtime story. The end.

There are many in-jokes related to the original Leave It To Beaver series, as well as satires of the original personas of the characters, such as Hugh's freak out over the boys dropping the computer.