When Zachary Beaver Came to Town is a 2003 children's movie starring Jonathan Lipnicki and Cody Linley, based on the children's book by Kimberly Willis Holt.
This movie, based on the book by the same name, follows the events of one summer in a small Texas town. A boy named Toby (Jonathan Lipnicki) and his best friend Cal (Cody Linley) meet an extremely overweight, adolescent sideshow freak named Zachary Beaver (Sasha Neulinger). They get to know ...
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When Zachary Beaver Came to Town is a 2003 children's movie starring Jonathan Lipnicki and Cody Linley, based on the children's book by Kimberly Willis Holt.
This movie, based on the book by the same name, follows the events of one summer in a small Texas town. A boy named Toby (Jonathan Lipnicki) and his best friend Cal (Cody Linley) meet an extremely overweight, adolescent sideshow freak named Zachary Beaver (Sasha Neulinger). They get to know him, and meanwhile, both younger boys deal with the absence of Cal's brother, Wayne, who has joined the army, and later dies. Also, Toby's mother (Jane Krakowski) runs off to Nashville in the hopes of becoming a country singer. Later, Toby tries to find Zachary's caretaker before the Social services arrive and drives his father's truck into a railroad track, causing a near miss by a train. When they arrive in their town, Toby and Cal along with the help of the local diner owner (who was going to be a preacher) get Zachary baptized, something...
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