The Beaver Trilogy

The Beaver Trilogy follows the unlikely story of "Groovin' Gary," also known as "The Beaver Kid," a would-be Olivia Newton-John impersonator from Beaver, Utah. Over the course of three films, the unlikely star is played by Crispin Glover, a young Sean Pean, and himself.

"Spanning history and farce, inhabiting the gray zone where the ridiculous becomes the sublime, director Trent Harris's accidental feature is a delicate hybrid of fiction, cinema verite and medical X-ray. The only thing stranger than the film itself is the story of how it got made, and why, 20 years later, a broad audience might actually get to see it."--Salon

After screening the three films for the first time for over a decade, Harris realized they had turned into a feature, revealing startlingly different interpretations of the same character. As Variety enthusiastically noted, "a longtime source of underground fandom, the 'Beaver' pics are overdue for wider play." (82 mins.)