JACK THE BEAR [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1993
• Genre: Drama, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: 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
• Cast: Danny DeVito, Robert J. Steinmiller Jr., Miko Hughes, Gary Sinise, Art LaFleur, Stefan Gierasch, Erica Yohn, Andrea Marcovicci, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Reese Witherspoon, Bert Remsen, Carl Gabriel Yorke, Lee Garlington, Lorinne Vozoff, Justin Mosley Spink, Jahary Bennett, Lillian Hightower Domio, Troy W. Slaten, Jessica Steinmiller, Douglas Tolbert, Christopher Lawford, Cliff Bemis, Charles Dugan, Marion Dugan, Sam Freed, Dorothy Lyman, Kevin McDermott, Robert Dunn, Christy Botkin, Vonna Bowen, Steven McCall, Donovan Leitch, Sarah Bork, Dena Goodmanson, Paul Wilson, Scott Thomson, George E. Clayton Jr., Monica Calhoun, Kelly Connell, Marshall Herskovitz
• Director: Marshall Herskovitz
• Runtime: 1:38
• Company: 20th Century Fox
• Media Format: Movie