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- This interpretation, shot in 1981 on a home video camera with a budget of $100, features the young Sean Penn as the Beaver Kid re-enacting the same scenario. Still possessed, Harris then rewrote the script, cast Crispin Glover in the lead, and in 1985 created the final segment, "Orkly Kid" as an American Film Institute project.
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Jul 23, 2000 · The inimitable Crispin Glover is now the Beaver Kid. By the time Glover gets to his Olivia Newton John performance, the story of the outsider finding his voice through the pop star’s words...
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In 1979, filmmaker Trent Harris visits the small town of Beaver, Utah to film a talent show. Impressed by a performer called Groovin' Gary, he recreates Gary's act in 1981 with Sean Penn and in 1985 with Crispin Glover.
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- Documentary, Comedy, Drama
- Trent Harris
- 2001-01-20
Jan 31, 2015 · A few years later in 1985 the film was re-made again, this time casting an equally undiscovered Crispin Glover. Brad Besser's standalone compilation is a retelling of the whole story and an excavation of its missing pieces.
Aug 27, 2020 · In the Crispin Glover version, after a scene with a gun in his mouth, the bewigged Beaver Kid leaves his uptight hometown in his white Chevrolet named Olivia for a bright future in Tinseltown. The truth, of course, is different.
May 5, 2015 · That triptych — which comprises an eccentric TV profile and two short-film re-enactments starring Sean Penn and Crispin Glover — eventually found its way to the 2001 Sundance Film Festival as...
Jan 25, 2001 · Still possessed, Harris then rewrote the script, cast up-and-comer Crispin Glover in the lead, and created the final segment, "The Orkly Kid", with funding from the American Film Institute. The trilogy unveils the inner world of a fantastic character in three incarnations.
May 16, 2016 · The reasons why are the subject of Brad Besser’s new documentary, The Beaver Trilogy, Part IV, which delves deeply into both The Beaver Trilogy, as well as Harris himself. Besser’s documentary played at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and is currently available on iTunes, Amazon and VOD.
