MOVIE REVIEW: The Beaver
THE BEAVER-- 3 STARS Official Website Internet Movie Database Some actors during their careers had a point where they became polarizing personas, not for the daring roles they took on-screen, but for their lifestyle choices off-screen. Lately, the poster-child has been Tom Cruise's couch-jumping and brow-beating Scientology views. Joaquin Phoenix's fake retirement and terrible interviewing gets him in the team photo too. Then you have the guys that have had the "quirky" tag for years like Sean Penn, Jeff Goldblum, Crispin Glover, Gary Oldman, Christopher Walken, and even Robert Downey, Jr.. Is the quirky label fair or are they daring? Are they eccentric or calculated? Are they crazy or are they actually brilliant? Well, Mel Gibson might be the unofficial president of the Polarizing Club. He's got Tom Cruise beat when you count up all of the drunken, racist, mega-Catholic, anti-gay, anti-semitic, misogynistic, and abusive things that have com...