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Overview
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Dan McCall (novel)
Steven Zaillian (screenplay)
Release Date:
2 April 1993 (USA) more
Plot:
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... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 2 nominations more
User Comments:
dark, but honest more (23 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Danny DeVito | ... | John Leary |
 | Robert J. Steinmiller Jr. | ... | Jack Leary |
| Miko Hughes | ... | Dylan Leary |
 | Gary Sinise | ... | Norman Strick |
 | Art LaFleur | ... | Mr. Festinger |
| Stefan Gierasch | ... | Father-in-Law |
| Erica Yohn | ... | Mother-in-Law |
 | Andrea Marcovicci | ... | Elizabeth Leary |
 | Julia Louis-Dreyfus | ... | Peggy Etinger |
 | Reese Witherspoon | ... | Karen Morris |
| Bert Remsen | ... | Mitchell |
| Carl Gabriel Yorke | ... | Gordon Layton |
 | Lee Garlington | ... | Mrs. Festinger |
| Lorinne Vozoff | ... | Mrs. Mitchell |
| Justin Mosley Spink | ... | Dexter Mitchell |
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for elements of theme, and for some terror.
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Runtime:
99 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Australia:MA (DVD rating) | Iceland:L | USA:PG-13 (certificate #31368) | Singapore:PG | South Korea:All | Argentina:13 | Chile:14 | UK:12
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Continuity: The stuffed dog on the living room floor of Karen's house. more
Quotes:
Norman Strick: Jack, are you in there. more
Movie Connections:
Features "Sesame Street" (1969) more
Soundtrack:
Dream Lover more
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I found "Jack The Bear" to be a touching, honest portrayal of how life's trying times effect us, bring us closer together, and teach us to carry on. I found the acting very good and the dialogue believable. Devito does a good job in delivering his character earnestly, and his comic genius is well employed through his character's job as a movie host. Gary Senise does his usual fine job and the young actors are all excellent. The flashbacks of the mother are done tastefully, and though a dark film, it is entertaining and enjoyable. The scenes of the neighborhood kids interacting are accurate and the dialogue very natural and real. The attitudes of that era are captured quite accurately as well. I recommend this film highly.