Ward Cleaver was a feckless slacker and knocked up June and fled to Alaska leaving June with an 8 year old girl and a 6 year old boy. June moves house to be near her mother who will 'help' so she can go back to school and finish her degree and get a better paying job.
She marries her professor who is twice her but has a nice big house and two children who are about the same age as her own. He turns out to be an overbearing and abusive drunk. They flee.
She then becomes involved with a well meaning prison guard. I think she leaves again but I may have dosed off. Meanwhile we see the Beaver character have 'quality' moments with his real Dad who has broken his heart because he sold the cool muscle car that he promised him in the third grade to buy a minivan to accommodate his new family. This must be his transition to the 'real' Ward Cleaver as he now wears a suit and tie and works for an insurance company.
The Beaver wins 2nd place in a photo contest after spending all his time in the dark room in the age of digital as he has artistic depth. He wins a small scholarship and goes off to college as far away as he can get as long as its still in Texas.
His Mom, in saying goodbye recounts all the milestones in her life and bursts into tears as she realises that sending her youngest off to college is the last one. All that is left is her funeral or so she tells him. She appears to have gained weight and will be moving into her mother's tiny apartment.
He arrives at some college in the middle of nowhere, meets his dorm mate, his dorm mate's girl friend and her room mate. They take mushrooms and go hiking. The friend of his new room mate's girl friend and he are watching as the room mate and girl friend howl like coyotes and yell stuff. The friend of the room mate says,
"You know how people are always talking about 'seizing the moment'?
"Yeah." He says
"Well, I think it really the other way around."
He agrees sort of.
The End.
Appendix:
Briefly seen are the following. Beaver gets a bad haircut. He checks out lingerie ads in a catalogue. He's teased by mean boys. His friend shows him internet porn. Big kids give him a beer. His girl friend dumps him because she likes someone else who is older and perhaps less boring.
The 3 stars are all for Patricia Arquette without whom the movie would be completely unbearable.
She marries her professor who is twice her but has a nice big house and two children who are about the same age as her own. He turns out to be an overbearing and abusive drunk. They flee.
She then becomes involved with a well meaning prison guard. I think she leaves again but I may have dosed off. Meanwhile we see the Beaver character have 'quality' moments with his real Dad who has broken his heart because he sold the cool muscle car that he promised him in the third grade to buy a minivan to accommodate his new family. This must be his transition to the 'real' Ward Cleaver as he now wears a suit and tie and works for an insurance company.
The Beaver wins 2nd place in a photo contest after spending all his time in the dark room in the age of digital as he has artistic depth. He wins a small scholarship and goes off to college as far away as he can get as long as its still in Texas.
His Mom, in saying goodbye recounts all the milestones in her life and bursts into tears as she realises that sending her youngest off to college is the last one. All that is left is her funeral or so she tells him. She appears to have gained weight and will be moving into her mother's tiny apartment.
He arrives at some college in the middle of nowhere, meets his dorm mate, his dorm mate's girl friend and her room mate. They take mushrooms and go hiking. The friend of his new room mate's girl friend and he are watching as the room mate and girl friend howl like coyotes and yell stuff. The friend of the room mate says,
"You know how people are always talking about 'seizing the moment'?
"Yeah." He says
"Well, I think it really the other way around."
He agrees sort of.
The End.
Appendix:
Briefly seen are the following. Beaver gets a bad haircut. He checks out lingerie ads in a catalogue. He's teased by mean boys. His friend shows him internet porn. Big kids give him a beer. His girl friend dumps him because she likes someone else who is older and perhaps less boring.
The 3 stars are all for Patricia Arquette without whom the movie would be completely unbearable.