Hundreds of Beavers

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Hundreds of Beavers is a 2022 American slapstick comedy film directed by Mike Cheslik in his feature directorial debut, and written by Cheslik and Ryland Tews. The black-and-white, largely dialogue-free independent film stars Tews as applejack maker Jean Kayak who, in trying to win the hand of a merchant's daughter, finds himself embroiled in a conflict with a colony of beavers. Cheslik and Tews, who had previously collaborated on multiple projects including Lake Michigan Monster (2018), developed the idea for Hundreds of Beavers in October 2018. Conceived as a parody of The Revenant (2015) and survival films, the film was influenced by silent movies and slapstick comedies, and was designed to be akin to watching a let's play video. Hundreds of Beavers was shot on a low budget of $150,000 in rural Wisconsin and Michigan across twelve weeks during the winter of 2019–20; the beavers and most of the other animals throughout the film were portrayed by actors in mascot costumes. Following two...

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