Leave It to Beaver is the sort of movie that could be described as good clean fun if it happened to be good or fun.
Leave it to Beaver (1997)
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Reviews Counted:27
Fresh:5
Rotten:22
Average Rating:4/10
Runtime: 88 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: The juvenile miscreant of TV's golden era makes his jump to the big screen intact, along with too-perfect big brother Wally, scheming Eddie Haskell, sage dad Ward, and cookie-baking mom June. Minor... The juvenile miscreant of TV's golden era makes his jump to the big screen intact, along with too-perfect big brother Wally, scheming Eddie Haskell, sage dad Ward, and cookie-baking mom June. Minor touches bring the Cleavers into the 1990s (a racially diverse classroom, personal computers), but the Beav still just makes a mess of things despite his best intentions. Here, he joins the football team to please Dad (and get a brand new bike), leading to humiliation and slapstick chaos. [More]
Starring: Cameron Finley, Christopher McDonald, Janine Turner, Erik von Detten
Starring: Cameron Finley, Christopher McDonald, Janine Turner, Erik von Detten, Adam Zolotin, Barbara Billingsley, Ken Osmond, Frank Bank, Erika Christensen, Alan Rachins, E.J. De La Pena, Justin Restivo, Geoffrey Pierson, Grace Phillips
Director: Andy Cadiff
Director: Andy Cadiff
Screenwriter: Lon Diamond, Brian Levant
Composer: Randy Edelman
Producer: Robert Simonds
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Reviews for Leave it to Beaver
This Leave it to Beaver is unabashedly 90s in a fairly depressing way: it takes paternal incompetence as a given.
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