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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Salesrank: 53429
Released: December 14, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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.
Description of Jack the Bear:
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
Jack the Bear Reviews:
Finally! 
2009-05-03 - I love Danny Devito movies so you can imagine my disappointment when I was unable to view "Jack the Bear" on T.V. Everytime this picture comes on T.V. it is on a cable channel that we don't have. I'm glad I finally got to view it again and finally I can share it with my family.
USPS sux 
2009-01-10 - I did not get to see this movie because my mailman stole it. Oh, that's right. Stole it. My girlfriend moved out. He thought everyone did, so he just kept whatever he was to deliver at my house!!! If I had to do over again I would have sent it UPS, at least they are not scumbags.
Jack the Bear 
2008-05-23 - This is a great family movie. I watched it as a kid and it is even better then I remembered it. I definitely recommend it to anyone.
Heart warming family drama
2008-01-24 - Danny DeVito and Gary Sinease are good but it is the kids in this movie that steal the show.
Delightful, touching, fun, halloweeny movie 
2007-10-20 - This movie is in my top 5 all-time movies. I'm sure it wasn't a block buster. It has no stunning special fx. It has a great cast and is wonderfully acted and it hits me in my heart every time I see it. I don't watch many movies more than once, but I watch this movie regularly. It's about loss, love and sticking together when the going gets tough, along with many other things.
