Hundreds of Beavers
(Mike Cheslik, 2022, USA, 109 minutes)
Free mini posters to the first ten attendees each night!
This December, the beavers are coming home. The Webster Film Series was the third exhibitor in the nation to book 2024 indie breakout smash Hundreds of Beavers for a regular run. Now here we are, 21 months later, and this $150,000-budgeted, self-distributed movie is still going strong, playing somewhere in America almost every single week since (including at least three other venues here in St. Louis). A party movie of the sort you’re always wanting to see but can very rarely find, the made-in-Wisconsin Hundreds of Beavers feels like if Guy Maddin took a stab at making a family movie and missed the mark a little. Our hero is a 19th century applejack salesman who falls in love with a local furrier and is made to deliver, yes, hundreds of beavers (played by humans in mascot costumes) so as to impress her overbearing father. The black and white, mostly silent Hundreds of Beavers will remind you of a live-action Looney Tunes, or maybe Tom & Jerry, but with more than a whiff of the great silent comedians (the Chaplin of The Gold Rush and the Keaton of Seven Chances most especially), and/or maybe Scott Pilgrim and Fantastic Mr. Fox.
It is $8 for the general public; $7 for seniors, Webster alumni and students from other schools; $6 for Webster University staff and faculty; $0 for Webster students with proper ID.
