Leave It to Beaver [Blu-ray]

Director: Andy Cadiff Andy Cadiff

Overview

The Cleaver Family makes the jump from the small black and white screen to color and Panavision in this updated version of the classic TV sit-com. Eight-year-old Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver (Cameron Finley) is a good natured kid with a habit of getting in trouble; he's not bad, mind you, just a bit absent-minded. Beaver lives with his 12-year-old brother Wally (Erik Von Detten), his father Ward (Christopher McDonald), and his mother June (Janine Turner) in a small town in Ohio. Beaver wants a new bicycle more than anything, but his father wishes that he had more of an interest in team sports; someone suggests to Beaver that if he joined the school's football team, Ward might be impressed enough to buy him the bike. Beaver signs up, but his skills on the gridiron fall somewhere between slim and none, and the experience proves more than a bit embarrassing for both Beaver and Ward. Before long, Beaver has quit the team, but he tries to hide this fact from his father. Beaver does get his bike -- but he doesn't get to do much with it before it's stolen by a bigger kid in the neighborhood. Meanwhile, Wally's best friend, the mildly sleazy Eddie Haskell (Adam Zolotin), has fallen for a cute girl at school, Karen (Erika Christensen), and wants Wally to help him impress her; however, Karen seems to like Wally more than Eddie. This puts Wally in dutch with his best friend, and Wally feels even worse when he and Karen begin to quarrel. Ken Osmond, who played Eddie Haskell on the original TV series, plays Eddie's father here, and Barbara Billingsley, the original June Cleaver, appears as Aunt Martha.

Product Details

Release Date:	08/13/2019
UPC:	0191329091654
Original Release:	1997
Rating:	PG
Source:	Universal
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:28:00
Sales rank:	29,847

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Christopher McDonald	Ward Cleaver
Janine Turner	June Cleaver
Cameron Finley	Beaver Cleaver
Erik von Detten	Wally Cleaver
Adam Zolotin	Eddie Haskell
Barbara Billingsley	Aunt Martha
Ken Osmond	Eddie Sr.
Frank Bank	Frank
Erika Christensen	Karen
Alan Rachins	Fred Rutherford
Matthew Thomas Carey	Kyle
Justin Restivo	Lumpy
Geoff Pierson	Coach Gordon
Grace Phillips	Miss Landers
E.J. De La Pena	Larry Mondello
Louis Martin Braga III	Gilbert Bates
Glenn Walker Harris Jr.	Punk
Sam Gifaldi	Richard Rickover
Brighton Hertford	Judy Hensler
Shirley Prestia	Claire Hensler
Brenda Song	Susan
Fran Bennett	Dr. Beaumont
Wendy Walsh	Female Reporter
Lindsay Boyd	Lusty Girl
Heather Lauren Olson	Tamara
George Fisher	Bert, the Pie Man
Kate C. Sklar	Cute Girl
Darryl Smith	Referee
Walter C. Bassett	Actor
Eric Von Detten	Actor
Randy Edelman	Composer

Technical Credits

Brian Levant

Lon Diamond

Robert Simonds	Producer
Andy Cadiff	Director
Lynn Arost	Executive Producer
Brian K. Burrows	Stunts
Joanna Colbert	Casting
Joshua Hakian	Special Effects
David Helpern	Executive Producer
Chris Howell	Stunts
Ben Myron	Executive Producer
Brian Levant	Screenwriter
Lon Diamond	Screenwriter
Thomas Brandau	Sound/Sound Designer