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The Beaver
Drama
Suffering from a severe case of depression, toy company CEO Walter Black begins using a beaver hand puppet to help him open up to his family. With his father seemingly going insane, adolescent son Porter pushes for his parents to get a divorce.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to offbeat, emotionally raw stories about mental illness and family repair that balance painful realism with absurdist humor.
- Tone
- melancholic, darkly comic, surreal
- Payoff
- catharsis, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- depression, family estrangement, identity, recovery, emotional repression
- Setting
- contemporary, affluent suburban home and toy-company offices
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