The Beaver Trilogy

The Beaver Trilogy

2001
Comedy, Documentary
1h 23m
It begins in 1979 with the chance meeting in a Salt Lake City parking lot where filmmaker Trent Harris is approached by an earnest small-town dreamer from Beaver, Utah (imdb)
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The Beaver Trilogy

2001
Comedy, Documentary
1h 23m
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Rated 07 Aug 2014
83
82nd
Something else altogether. The first bit feels like the kind of bizarre character who might show up in a Herzog film. But Harris films his performance like a rock star, the camera adding some power to Groovin' Gary's bizarre act. The Penn segment serves as a bridge between documentary and fiction. Harris reveals he was kind of a jerk, but also seems to look down on the kid. Part 3 is where it all comes together, becoming a story of homophobia, despite being the most pathetic interpretation.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
45
18th
Same story is told three times. Once was more than enough.
Rated 24 Feb 2013
74
42nd
This movie is an interesting experiment. The director takes real footage about a real person and then re-shoots and tweaks it 2 different times with actors. The real footage is funny and weird, the recreations are also humorous and strange.
Rated 30 Mar 2014
73
72nd
The Sean Penn segment is sort of redundant, but the original documntary short is almost proto-Harmony Korine verite and the Crispin Glover version is nearly brilliant in a deadpan PoMo way that hints toward Rubin and Ed without going quite so overboard into pure campy silliness...
Rated 19 Feb 2024
75
76th
The original segment is certainly the best, and is a very special piece of documentary cinema. The latter two are interesting and enlightening to some degree, but fall short in significant aspects. Not least of these is the questionable interpretations of the character, of which Crispin Glover's is the more nuanced.
Rated 28 Jul 2020
90
91st
So is this the Koker Trilogy meets True Stories? Podunk town talent show with an oddball lead that's revisited twice over in different ways? Sounds like my cup of tea, and pleasantly, it was. It precedes both by virtue of being shot first (1979, 1981, 1985) but not released until decades later (2000). Props to Trent Harris for making this movie make me think about its intricacies more than I expected

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