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Bean| Director: | Mel Smith | | Writers: | Richard Curtis and Robin Driscoll | | Director of Photography: | Francis Kenny | | Editor: | Christopher Blunden | | Music: | Howard Goodall | | Production Designer: | Peter Larkin | | Producers: | Peter Bennett-Jones, Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan | | Gramercy; PG-13; 92 minutes | | Release: | 11/97 | | Cast: | Rowan Atkinson, Sir John Mills, Harris Yulin, Peter MacNicol, Pamela Reed, Larry Drake, Tom McGowan, Sandra Oh, Johnny Galecki and Burt Reynolds | | Based on the British television series |
The comic talent of Atkinson and his dorky Mr. Bean don't need to prove themselves in the United States, with Mr. Bean grossing more than $100 million before hitting these shores. While the film's intermittently funny, Mr. Bean's antics fare much better on the small screen. The slow pace and bodily function jokes grow stale — and predictable — rather quickly. Fed up with Bean's dozing on the job as a security guard, his bosses at London's National Art Gallery dispatch him to Los Angeles to supervise the move of a priceless painting, Whistler's Mother. The museum's curator (MacNicol) hosts Bean, who nearly destroys the family and succeeds in doing a number on the painting.
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