Quarantining with your loved ones can be difficult.
Or at least, that’s what one father is learning as he spends two-weeks trapped in the house with his family after a return to their Canadian home.
But it isn’t just the quarantine that is making things difficult. It’s also the fact that his oldest daughter, The Bean, is graduating from high school and ready to move out. Although he gets to have more meaningful moments with his daughter during their quarantine, he soon discovers that the more time he spends in her presence, the less he understands her.
And though he wants to understand her, he quickly discovers that he is his own worst enemy and everything he does to bring the family closer together becomes a comedy of errors. No more movie nights; no more five-minute dance parties; no more video games together; and worst of all, no more Bean in the household. This father is not ready for what the future holds.
And thus, the curse of a pandemic becomes the blessing of extra time with family, which becomes a curse of extra time with family during a pandemic.
Filmed almost solely by himself with his tortured family as cast and crew, The Bean is the first of many films to come from Randall P. Girdner, creator of the Boyd McCloyd fantasy series for middle grade students and the Maurice the Beaver comic strip.