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Jack the Bear

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Jack the Bear (1993)

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Average Rating:5.7/10

Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: A recently widowed father with a alcohol problem and his two young sons move from New York to the California suburbs during the early 1970s and find themselves coping with hardship, adolescence and... A recently widowed father with a alcohol problem and his two young sons move from New York to the California suburbs during the early 1970s and find themselves coping with hardship, adolescence and frightening incidents which occur in the neighborhood, all the while growing closer as a family. [More]

Starring: Danny DeVito, Robert J. Steinmiller, Miko Hughes

Starring: Danny DeVito, Robert J. Steinmiller, Miko Hughes

Director: Marshall Herskovitz

Director: Marshall Herskovitz
Composer: James Horner
Screenwriter: Steven Zallian, Steven Zaillian
Producer: Bruce Gilbert
Story: Dan McCall

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Dec 14, 2004

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