Mel Gibson’s Beaver Rated PG-13

Parents can now bring their kids to see Mel Gibson’s new movie: his new film The Beaver, which also stars Jodie Foster, has just been rated PG-13 by the MPAA. This is described as containing “mature thematic material, some disturbing content, sexuality, and language including a drug reference.” Together again for the first time since Maverick, the film—which is still set for a “TBA 2010” release—centers around a man who “walks around with a puppet of a beaver on his hand and treats it like a living creature.” Since the release of Gibson’s damning tapes, The Beaver has been regarded as a marketing nightmare for Summit Entertainment. But as its writer, Kyle Killen, told The Daily Beast: “Once it went into production, it really became a Jodie Foster movie. So I’m as eager as you to find out what happens.”