Jack the Bear
by Marshall Herskovitz
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Actor: Art LaFleur, Danny DeVito, Gary Sinise, Miko Hughes, Robert J. Steinmiller Jr.Director: Marshall Herskovitz
Brand: Fox
Cinematographer: Fred Murphy
Editor: Steven Rosenblum
Producer: Bruce Gilbert
Producer: Peter Burrell
Producer: Ron Yerxa
Writer: Dan McCall
Writer: Steven Zaillian
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-12-14
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Movie Reviews of Jack the Bear
Movie Review: Every bit as great as Stand By Me and Mrs. Doubtfire
Summary: 5 Stars
I've seen a lot of good dramas, but this one's my favorite. Everyone in the movie does an amazing and believable job at their roll and this could easily be Danny DeVito's best performance, too. It has some very sad and moving scenes though, so I wouldn't recommend watching if you're already depressed or don't have any tissues handy. I actually cried during four or five different parts, which is really rare for me when I'm watching any kind of movie! It's a shame Robert J. Steinmiller Jr. wasn't in any more films than just the few, because he was as talented as Macaulay Culkin. But anyway, Jack The Bear doesn't have many special effects but what it does have is real acting. Definitely worth buying.
Summary of Jack the Bear
After the death of his wife, John Leary (Danny DeVito) vows to make a new life for himself and his two sons, Jack and Dylan (Robert J. Steinmiller, Jr. and Miko Hughes). He moves the family to Oakland and gets a job as the monster host of a late night horror TV show. Though all three try to cope with the great loss in their lives, Jack find's his father's silly antics and alcoholism a confusing and embarrassing burden. Gary Sinise and Julia Louis-Dreyfus co-star in this human look at the joys and pains of growing up.It's not hard to see what attracted director Marshall Herskovitz (TV's thirtysomething) and writer Steve Zaillian (Schindler's List) to this tragicomic story of a widower trying to keep life together for his two young sons. And Danny DeVito gives them a surprisingly sympathetic and low-key performance that capably blends pathos and humor. But the story--about Jack's attempts to get his drinking under control, even while holding down a job as a late-night TV horror-movie host--descends into bathos. Then it gets downright weird and scary when the family's strange neo-Nazi neighbor (a popeyed Gary Sinise) takes an unhealthy interest in one of the children. Jack the Bear sat on the shelf for a couple of years while Herskovitz reworked it, but it was like changing the tires on a car with a broken drive-train. --Marshall Fine
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