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Danny De Vito is a professional clown, whose wife's death in a car accident has left him to care for his two young boys. Loving, but useless at the daily job of fathering, the onus falls on plucky Jack the Bear (Robert J. Steinmiller Jr.). De Vito's conscience, and a quantity of alcohol leads him to denounce a neo-fascist candidate on his children's TV programme - and also to the kidnapping of youngest son Dylan (Miko Hughes) by a disturbed neo-nazi supporter. Written by
David Holmes <d.r.h@btinternet.com>
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Goofs
The stuffed dog on the living room floor of Karen's house.
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Quotes
John Leary:
We're at a crossroads, can you feel it? It's dark down there and there are things, nobody wants to meet in the dark. Whether we'll come out on the other side, hating everything and everybody, I don't know.
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King Kong (1933)
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Soundtracks
"(I've Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo"
Written by
Harry Warren and
Mack Gordon
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I really was in spell of this movie. I was loving it. It was funny and heartwarming. Characters are believable but then the plot goes downhill. the plot becomes expected and keeps falling into clichés. Everything that you think that movie shouldn't do, it does.
The whole thing really doesn't makes much sense and things just seem to happen to get the required emotions from the viewer. But even with these shortcomings in the plot, I have given it an average rating. Mostly due the interesting first half. It could have been really good if the movie had a better and more believable plot.
In the end, how you perceive it will depend mostly on your own experience. Naive viewers will fall in love with it. More jaded and more astute viewers will be able to see behind the ruse. I however felt in between. I was able to see through the ruse, but I still wanted the movie to redeem itself somehow.