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Leave It to Beaver

1997 · 84 min

A gentle, nostalgic slice of small-town childhood where mild mischief and family warmth keep everything safe and smiling.

Directed by
Andy Cadiff
Genres
Comedy, Family
Tagline
The Beav is back!
Overview
The Cleavers are an all-American family living in Ohio – wise father Ward, loving mother June, teenage son Wally, and 8-year-old Theodore, better known as 'Beaver'. Beaver hopes to get a bike as a gift from his father and to please him tries out for his school football team and he makes it, only to be embarrassed. The bike he gets is quickly stolen. Meanwhile, Wally is trying to help his friend Eddie Haskell to get the heart of pretty classmate Karen, but Karen seems to like Wally more, and that leads to tensions between the friends.

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Directed by
Andy Cadiff
Genres
Comedy, Family
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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • coming-of-age
  • friendship
  • parenthood
  • love
Places
  • small town
  • home
  • school
Era
period
Audience
family
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror0
Humour6
Realism7
Romance3
Tension2
Darkness1
Complexity2
Emotional weight3

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Genres
comedy, family
Directed by
Andy Cadiff
Written by
Brian Levant, Joe Connelly
Starring
Christopher McDonald, Janine Turner, Cameron Finley, Erik von Detten, Adam Zolotin, Alan Rachins, Grace Phillips, Geoff Pierson
Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
84 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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