When Zachary Beaver Came to Town

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
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Directed by	John Schultz
Produced by	Michael Corrente Amy Robinson Jay Julien
Screenplay by	John Schultz
Based on	When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt
Starring	Sasha Joseph Neulinger Jonathan Lipnicki Cody Linley Jesse Pennington Jane Krakowski Eric Stoltz
Music by	Richard Gibbs
Cinematography	Shawn Maurer
Editing by	John Pace
Studio	Revere Pictures
Distributed by	Echo Bridge
Release date(s)	January 21, 2003 (2003-01-21)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$3 million

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town is a 2003 comedy-drama film starring Jonathan Lipnicki and Cody Linley. It was adapted from a National Book Award-winning children's novel of the same name by Kimberly Willis Holt.

Plot

One summer in the small, sleepy town of Granger, Texas, Toby Wilson's life changes. Toby is a boy who lives with his parents, but his mother runs off to Nashville to become a singer. Later, he and his best friend Cal McKnight meet an extremely overweight, adolescent sideshow freak named Zachary Beaver, who has no parents or friends. Zachary, "The Fattest Boy Ever," spends most of his time in a camp trailer; he is abandoned by the person who watches him from the circus. Toby and Cal get to know him, and soon become friends with him. They cope with the loss of Cal's brother, Wayne, who usually takes them out for snow cones and, who joins the army and later dies which makes Cal really upset and Toby doesn't come to his funeral to bring Zachary somewhere in his dad's truck and they get stranded in the middle of nowhere but get home and Zachary's home will be taken away and Toby gets in trouble with his father and Cal very upset at him and gives him back all the money he borrowed from him and tells him his mother is never coming back like Wayne. Toby gives a country girl, he likes a necklace which was his mother but gives it back to him and he got to have his dance with her after her boyfriend broke up with her. Cal and Toby become friends after Toby chases him down to a lake and they help Zachary get baptized in a lake with a pastor and later his guardian returns with circus freaks to adopt him and he leaves town with them and says goodbye to his new friends.

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Filming locations

The film was shot in Antler, Texas.

External links

• When Zachary Beaver Came to Town at the Internet Movie Database
• When Zachary Beaver Came to Town at AllRovi
• When Zachary Beaver Came to Town at Rotten Tomatoes