25 June 2011

The Beaver

Clarice & Braveheart team up with a rodent to deliver a stark, truthful black comedy about Mental Disease and its effects on a person and the family. Mel Gibson gives a powerful, and one of his best, performance as a man battling depression and his need for help, teethering on the verge of losing everything. The B-plot weighs the rest of the show down, and is only tolerable because of the 2 rising stars: Anton Yelchin and Jennifer Lawrence. Jodie Foster is her usual brillant self but as a director she does not stand out.
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