![]() After Bean pranks the airport police by pretending to have a gun and accidentally destroys the family's prized possessions, David's wife, Alison, leaves for her mother's house along with their children, Kevin and Jennifer. Bean", offers to accommodate Bean in his home for two months against his family's wishes. Grierson's curator David Langley, impressed with the false profile of "Dr. When the gallery's board of directors, who despise Bean for sleeping on the job, fail to fire him under the chairman's orders, they instead select Bean as their representative for the transfer of James McNeill Whistler's 1871 portrait Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1 ( Whistler's Mother) to the Grierson Art Gallery in Los Angeles, purchased by philanthropist General Newton for $50 million, in an attempt to get rid of him for a while. Bean works as a security guard at the National Gallery in London. Well-meaning yet clumsy and destructive Mr. The film received mixed reviews from critics but was a commercial success, having grossed $251.2 million worldwide against an $18 million budget. Produced by Gramercy Pictures, Working Title Films, and Tiger Aspect Films, Bean was released in the United Kingdom on 2 August 1997 and in the United States on 7 November 1997 by PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Universal Pictures. In the film, Bean works as a security guard at the National Gallery in London before being sent to the United States to talk about the unveiling of James Abbott McNeill Whistler's 1871 painting Whistler's Mother. Bean created by Rowan Atkinson and Curtis, the film stars Atkinson in the title role, with Peter MacNicol, Pamela Reed, Harris Yulin, Sandra Oh and Burt Reynolds in supporting roles. Law and Dark Man (1990), died on 17 March 2016, aged 67.Bean (also known as Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie or Bean: The Movie) is a 1997 comedy film directed by Mel Smith and written by Richard Curtis and Robin Driscoll. Larry Drake, best known for his Emmy-winning role in L.A. The popular English funnyman Mel Smith died on July 19 2013, aged 60. The beloved English actor Sir John Mills died on 23 April 2005, aged 97. ![]() But for better or for worse here they are. Somehow, you don’t expect to see Burt Reynolds (as General Newton), Sir John Mills (the chairman), Johnny Galecki (as Stingo Wheelie!), Pamela Reed, Harris Yulin, Larry Drake and Peter Capaldi (the future Doctor Who, playing Gareth) in these circumstances. Richard Curtis provides the screenplay, along with Robin Driscoll. The droll Atkinson’s performance is full of beans and, though some of the jokes are frankly crude and weak (‘Mr Bean, are you on any kind of medication?’ ‘Not that I know of’), the script is still able to find more than 57 varieties of fun and laughs. market, this unsophisticated and patchy but wacky and often funny big-screen outing for the gormless Bean should still have enough laughs to please all fans of the original British TV series. Though it’s clearly tailored for the U.S. Bean naturally creates havoc on the plane, at LA airport, and later for his long-suffering American gallery curator host David Langley (Peter MacNicol). In what was advertised, rather ambiguously, as ‘the ultimate disaster movie’, the idiotically trouble-prone Mr Bean is sent by his employers, London’s National Gallery, to Los Angeles, where he is to look after the famous painting, Whistler’s Mother. Bean is amusingly directed by Atkinson’s old comedy pal from TV’s Not the Nine O’Clock News (1979-82), Mel Smith. In the UK, it was a smash, taking £18million. It cost $22million and grossed $182million worldwide, though only $45million of that was in the US. Rowan Atkinson scored a super-sized hit in 1997 with this nutty, big-hearted big-screen version of his popular TV show (1990-95). Bean *** (1997, Rowan Atkinson, Peter MacNicol, John Mills, Burt Reynolds, Johnny Galecki, Pamela Reed, Harris Yulin, Larry Drake, Peter Capaldi) – Classic Movie Review 791
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