Still the Beaver

• Director: Steven Hilliard Stern
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Comedy Drama
• Movie Type: Family Drama, Domestic Comedy
• Themes: Sibling Relationships, Parenthood
• Main Cast: Barbara Billingsley, Jerry Mathers
• Release Year: 1983
• Country: US
• Run Time: 100 minutes

Plot

Perhaps it's a blessing that old Ward Cleaver didn't live to see how his son Beaver (Jerry Mathers) turned out. Now in his mid-30s, the Beav is divorced, out of work, and living in his mother's house with his two children. Beaver's brother Wally, also married, is doing rather better, but his friendship with neighborhood sharpster Eddie Haskell (Ken Osmond) threatens his financial wellbeing. Only the boys' Mom June (Barbara Billingsley) has matured in the twenty years since Leave It to Beaver left the air. Still the Beaver was the pilot for one of those ubiquitous "reunion" series of the 1980s; this one sold, and ran for several seasons on the TBS Superstation as The New Leave It to Beaver. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Ed Begley, Jr.; Barbara Billingsley - June Cleaver; Diane Brewster; Richard Deacon; Tony Dow - Wally Cleaver; Joanna Gleason; Jerry Mathers - Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver

Credit

Steven Hilliard Stern - Director, Kurt Hirschler - Editor, Bud Austin - Executive Producer, John Cacavas - Composer (Music Score), Mort Greene - Composer (Music Score), Dave Kahn - Composer (Music Score), Melvin Lenard - Composer (Music Score), John W. Corso - Production Designer, Howard Schwartz - Cinematographer, Nick Abdo - Producer, Brian M. Levant - Teleplay By, Nick Abdo - Screen Story