Starring the incomparable Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean, this award-winning pilot episode of Mr. Bean introduces the world to the man whose outrageous exploits won over viewers around the globe. In this episode, Mr. Bean takes the exam, and finds he hasn't a clue he doesn't know the answer to a single question. On the beach, he struggles to change into swimming trunks without taking off his trousers. And, most difficult of all, he tries desperately to keep his eyes open in the church. Whatever the dilemma, Mr. Bean always finds an inventive and uproarious way to rise to the occasion.

Rowan Atkinson talks to Jon about playing a bumbling, ineffectual spy in his latest movie.

Comic actor Rowan Atkinson brought his bumbling character Mr. Bean from television to the big screen with this British comedy. Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) is a well-meaning but not especially bright fellow with a gift for making the worst of any situation. Bean is about to be fired from his job as a guard at the Royal Nation Art Gallery for sleeping on the job, but the Chairman (John Mills) intervenes at the last moment. To insure that his incompetence will manifest itself so completely that there will be no choice but to get rid of him, Bean's superiors come up with a plan -- they'll send him to America to speak at a posh private gallery owned by George Grierson (Harris Yulin), where General Newton (Burt Reynolds) will display the most recent addition to his art collection, Whistler's Mother. It's even money whether or not the museum will still be standing before Bean is done; as if this weren't enough, while in L.A. Bean is mistaken for a surgeon and forced to operate on an injured police officer. Richard Cur

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Category: School & Education

Category: School & Education