There is no way this movie can live up to its billing
On the stage earlier Ms. Foster had called the film “probably the biggest struggle of my professional career.”
She referred both to its subject — hopeless depression and a man who struggles through it with the help of a beaver hand puppet — and to the turmoil surrounding its lead actor, Mel Gibson.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/movies/jodie-foster-talks-about-the-beaver-and-mel-gibson.html?_r=1
