On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 1997 comedy film directed by Mel Smith and written by Richard Curtis and Robin Driscoll. Well-meaning yet bean stew vegetarian and destructive Mr.

Bean works as a security guard at the National Gallery in London. Grierson’s curator David Langley, impressed with the false profile of “Dr. Bean”, offers to accommodate Bean in his home for two months against his family’s wishes. After Bean pranks the airport police by pretending to have a gun and accidentally destroys the family’s prized possessions, David’s wife, Alison, leaves for her mother’s house along with their children, Kevin and Jennifer. The next day, the Whistler’s Mother has finally arrived in Los Angeles gallery but Bean accidentally sneezes on it and damages the painting with an ink-stained tissue and lacquer thinner while trying to clean it. Fearing that the damage would cost him his job and possibly get him prosecuted, David becomes despondent and gets drunk with Bean, though his family returns out of pity.

Brutus informs David that Jennifer has recently got into a motorcycle accident with her boyfriend, prompting David and Bean to rush to the hospital. While wandering around the hospital, Bean gets mistaken for a surgeon and is forced into a surgery room, where he encounters Brutus – who has been shot while dealing with a mugging on the way to the hospital – and saves his life by inadvertently removing the bullet from his body. Bean spends quality time together with David and his family, before David accompanies him back to the airport for his flight home to London and thanks him for everything as he departs. At home, Bean goes to sleep with his bedroom now decorated with photographs of his time in Los Angeles, as well as the original Whistler’s Mother painting he smuggled back with him. In November 1991, a year after the original series premiered, Variety announced that 20th Century Fox was producing a film adaptation of Mr. The North American release differs from the international release, as it includes an additional scene in which David suggests that Bean stuff the turkey while he distracts the Griersons during the dinner party. The international release includes two alternate scenes on either side of the deleted turkey scene in order to explain its absence.

When searching the refrigerator, Bean first finds two frankfurters and then the onion that he offers as an appetizer. Upon finding the turkey, David asks him if he has cooked a turkey before and he replies, “Oh yes. According to Atkinson in the documentary Bean Scenes Unseen, the differing scenes were the result of very different reactions from the North American and international audiences in test screenings. The film score was composed and conducted by Howard Goodall, who also composed the original Mr. Bean series, although the original Mr. Boyzone released a single from the film titled “Picture of You”.

16,062 per-theater average, placing number one for the weekend. 9,319 per-theater average and ranking number 10 at the US and Canadian box office, the first Canadian only release to reach the US and Canadian top 10. 17,902,161 in the UK, the fourth highest-grossing film for the year. 35 reviews with an average rating of 5. The site’s critical consensus reads: “Bean boasts a terrifically talented physical comedian in the title role, but his constant mugging and silly slapstick quickly wear thin. Roger Ebert gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four, saying that while he praised the film for having “many moments that were very funny”, he criticized the film’s runtime of 90 minutes, saying it was too long: “At an hour, Bean would have been nonstop laughs.