The Beaver Trilogy (2000)

Our story begins in 1979 with a chance meeting in a Salt Lake City parking lot where filmmaker Trent Harris is approached by an earnest smalltown dreamer from Beaver Utah Harris jumps at the chance when the young man invites him to come to the small town to film a talent show At the show the man dons a blond wig and performs in drag as Olivia Newton John Harris captures it all on tape A portrait of a true outsider Harris shot a dramatic piece Beaver Kid 2 based on the documentary This interpretation of the story made in 1981 on a home video camera with a budget of 100 features a young Sean Penn as the Beaver Kid Still possessed Harris then rewrote the script cast upandcomer Crispin Glover in the lead and created the final segment The Orkly Kid with funding from the American Film Institute The trilogy unveils the inner world of a fantastic character in three incarnations