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Released
1997 · FILM

Leave It to Beaver

“The Beav is back!”

Directed by
Andy Cadiff
Written by
Bob Mosher, Joe Connelly
Runtime
84 min
ComedyFamily
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

The Cleavers are an all‑American family living in Ohio, consisting of father Ward, mother June, teenage son Wally, and eight‑year‑old Theodore, who is called “Beaver.” Beaver hopes to receive a bike as a gift from his father; to please him he tries out for his school football team, makes the team, and then feels embarrassed. The bike he receives is soon stolen. At the same time, Wally attempts to help his friend Eddie Haskell win the affection of classmate Karen, but Karen appears to prefer Wally, creating tension between the friends.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Alan HeimShot by Thomas Del RuthScored by Randy EdelmanDesigned by Perry Andelin Blake

Box Office

1997 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.7× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$10.9M

Budget$15.0M
Worldwide gross$10.9M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $3.3M — 30% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $4.8M — 44% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,880 theaters

Also known as

  • Beaver ist los!de
  • Petit poucet l'espièglefr
  • Ci pensa Beaverit

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