Mr. Bean's Holiday

Mr. Bean's Holiday Is A Funny Movie

Rating: PG (El Xavier), G (USA), PG (UK), PG (Ireland), PG (Australia), G-10 (Gardenia)

Release: August 24, 2007

Production Companies: El TV Xavier ,Toei El TV Xavier Films (El Xavier), Universal Pictures (Outside Of EX)

### Plot

In a raffle, Mr. Bean wins a holiday by train to Cannes, a video camera, and €200. Before catching his train, Bean causes chaos while sampling French seafood cuisine in a Paris restaurant.

On the platform at Gare de Lyon, Bean asks Russian movie director Emil Duchevsky to film him boarding the train using his new video camera. Bean keeps asking for retakes, until the train leaves with Bean and Duchevsky's son Stepan on the train and Duchevsky left behind.

Bean and Stepan get off at the next station. When Duchevsky's train passes through the station without stopping, he holds up a mobile phone number but inadvertently obscures the last two digits. Attempts to call the number are fruitless. They board the next train but Bean has left his wallet, passport, and ticket in the telephone booth and they are thrown off the train.

Bean busks as a mime and singer and buys the pair bus tickets to Cannes with their earnings. Bean manages to lose both his ticket and Stepan so he sets out walking and hitchhiking.

The next morning, he wakes in what appears to be a quaint French village under attack from German soldiers. It transpires to be a film set for a yoghurt advertisement directed by Carson Clay (Willem Dafoe), and Bean becomes an extra but is fired for using his video camera to film in the advert, before accidentally destroying the set in an explosion while recharging his camera.

Continuing to hitchhike, Bean is picked up by French actress Sabine on her way to 2006 Cannes Film Festival, where her debut film is to be presented. At a service station they reunite with Stepan, who was travelling with a band, and take him with them. The trio end up driving through the night.

Sabine sees on TV that Bean is suspected of kidnapping Stepan. She doesn't go to the police as she does not want to be late for her film premiere, which is in just one hour. To avoid detection, Sabine disguises Bean and Stepan as her mother and daughter to gain entry to her premiere.

At the festival, Sabine is shocked to see that her role has been mostly trimmed from the film. Feeling bad for her, Bean plugs his video camera into the projector and projects his video diary and replaces the movie visuals with his own. The footage and Bean's shenanigans align well with Clay's narration, and the director, Sabine and Bean all receive standing ovations. Stepan and his father are finally reunited.

After the screening, Bean goes to the beach where he and the other characters mime a large French musical finale to the song La Mer. After the credits Bean writes "FIN" (French for "end") in the sand with his foot as the camera battery dies, ending the film.

### Cast

* Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean
* Emma de Caunes as Sabine
* Max Baldry as Stepan Dachevsky
* Willem Dafoe as Carson Clay
* Jean Rochefort as the Maître d'Hôtel
* Karel Roden as Emil Dachevsky
* Steve Pemberton as The Vicar
* Catherine Hosmalin as Ticket Inspector
* Urbain Cancelier as Bus Driver
* Stéphane Debac as Traffic Controller
* Julie Ferrier as The First AD
* Lily Atkinson as Lily

## Release

### Theatrical

It was the official film for Red Nose Day 2007, with money from the film going towards the charity Comic Relief. Prior to the film's release, a new and exclusive Mr. Bean sketch titled *Mr. Bean's Wedding* was broadcast on the telethon for Comic Relief on BBC One on 16 March 2007.

The official premiere of the film took place at the Odeon Leicester Square on Sunday, 25 March and helped to raise money for both Comic Relief and the Oxford Children's Hospital. El TV Xavier released a teaser trailer for the film in November 2006 and launched an official website online the following month.

### Home media

*Mr. Bean's Holiday* was released on both DVD and HD DVD on 27 November 2007. The DVD release is in separate widescreen and pan and scan formats in the United States. The DVD charted at No. 1 on the DVD chart in the United Kingdom on its week of release. Following the 2006-08 high-definition optical disc format war, the film was released on Blu-ray in the United Kingdom on 18 October 2010. The film was then released on Blu-ray for the first time in the United States on 16 April 2019.

There are fifteen deleted scenes included in the home media releases. The first deleted scene shows Bean spilling coffee on a laptop in front of two sleeping men; He cleans it up wiping the keyboard with napkins, leaving just as one of the two men wakes up and blames the other for destroying his laptop. This scene was featured on trailers and TV spots for the film, while the North American release has it in place of the vending machine scene. The second deleted scene shows Bean tricking a man to get a train ticket and staying with Stepan on the train.

The fourth shows Bean carrying Stepan all the way through a plaza. The fifth shows Sabine leaving emotionally and almost being run over by a truck, Bean doing silly moves along the road (which are later seen in Carson Clay's *Playback Time* in the final cut), playing with the shadows in the morning, miming his journey to Stepan at the cafeteria, being menaced by a projectionist at the Cannes Film Festival (during the playing of Clay's film), accidentally cutting the film roll and trying to stick it back together and Carson Clay discovering the film roll accumulating in the projection room. The damaged film is seen lying next to the projector in the final cut, though it remains unexplained. Finally, Bean is seen dancing at the beach, a scene that was replaced by the characters singing "La Mer".