Jack the Bear (1993)

Directed by

Marshall Herskovitz

Genre

drama film, comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 64 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A widowed father raises his two young sons in 1970s California. He works as a TV horror host while the family deals with grief and a threatening neighbor.

darkly comicemotionalgroundedcharacter-drivenwarmsadgentlenostalgic

What happens

Jack the Bear is a 1993 American comedy-drama film directed by Marshall Herskovitz, written by Steven Zaillian based on the novel of the same name by Dan McCall, and starring Danny DeVito. The film is about John Leary (DeVito), a single father raising his two sons (Robert J. Steinmiller Jr. and Miko Hughes) in the 1970s San Francisco Bay Area after the death of his wife (Andrea Marcovicci). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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