At home, Bean goes to sleep in 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. Per Bean's suggestion, they repay him by allowing him to stay with them for one more week.īean 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. Grateful for having their daughter back and wondering how to repay their doctor David and Alison are surprised when Bean reveals his true identity. David then begs Bean, unaware of his true identity, to wake Jennifer up from her unconscious state, which he succeeds after an accident with a defibrillator sends Bean flying and landing on her. 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 gives a speech about the painting, expressing an improvised and sentimental opinion that wins the crowd's approval.īrutus informs David that Jennifer has recently got into a motorcycle accident with her boyfriend, prompting David and Bean to rush to the hospital. That night, determined to save David's career, Bean sneaks back into the gallery, incapacitates the security guard with laxatives, and replaces the defaced Whistler's Mother with a reprinted poster of it coated in egg whites and nail polish to resemble the real one, which successfully fools everyone at the ceremony the next day. 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. The next day, the Whistler's Mother has finally arrived at the 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. Grierson and his wife, David discovers that Bean is not a doctor and knows nothing about art. After Bean accidentally ruins a dinner with Mr. David then begins to question Bean's status as an art expert following a visit to Pacific Park, where Bean is arrested by Lieutenant Brutus - the same police officer who interrogated him at the airport - after speeding up a simulator ride to make it more exciting for him. 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. Bean", offers to accommodate Bean in his home for two months against his family's wishes. Grierson's curator David Langley, impressed with the false profile of "Dr. When the gallery's board of directors, who despise Bean for sleeping on the job, fail to fire him under the chairman's orders, they instead select Bean as their representative for the transfer of James McNeill Whistler's 1871 portrait Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1 ( Whistler's Mother) to the Grierson Art Gallery in Los Angeles, purchased by philanthropist General Newton for $50 million, in an attempt to get rid of him for a while. Bean works as a security guard at the National Gallery in London. Well-meaning yet clumsy and destructive Mr. The film received mixed reviews from critics but was a commercial success, having grossed $251.2 million worldwide against an $18 million budget. Produced by Gramercy Pictures, Working Title Films, and Tiger Aspect Films, Bean was released in the United Kingdom on 2 August 1997 and in the United States on 7 November 1997 by PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Universal Pictures. In the film, Bean works as a security guard at the National Gallery in London before being sent to the United States to talk about the unveiling of James Abbott McNeill Whistler's 1871 painting Whistler's Mother. Bean created by Rowan Atkinson and Curtis, the film stars Atkinson in the title role, with Peter MacNicol, Pamela Reed, Harris Yulin, Sandra Oh and Burt Reynolds in supporting roles. Bean (also known as Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie or Bean: The Movie) is a 1997 comedy film directed by Mel Smith and written by Richard Curtis and Robin Driscoll.
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