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'Bean'
Bean is the worst employee at the National Art Gallery in London. Paid to do little more than watch paintings, he dozes at the job, head hunched so far forward it touches the floor. Determined to dump this loser, the gallery board sends him to accompany Whistler’s great painting, "Whistler’s Mother," to the Grierson Gallery in Los Angeles, which has just bought the masterpiece for $50 million. Bean, they tell the Grierson curators and trustees, is an art expert who will enlighten them at the unveiling ceremony with insightful remarks about the Whistler.
Bean, of course, hasn’t the slightest idea about art. He’s completely bewildered by the circle of curators, trustees and patrons eager to hear his pearls of wisdom. Invited to stay a few months at the home of curator David Langley, his wife Alison and their two children, he does his best to seem authoritative. -- Desson Howe
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