Jack the Bear

I saw this movie in Showtime around 6:30. At first I thought this movie would be boring! But, I was wrong! this movie was totally heart warming and a funny movie. Danny DeVito plays a father who is struggling to take... Full review

First of all, the cover on this movie fooled me, I admit. It shows a warm-and-fuzzy picture of two young kids snuggling up to their (I correctly assumed) dad. Add the kid-sounding movie title - "Jack The Bear" and the film... Full review

I have to confess to being baffled by this movie. At times, it seemed a family drama of a father and sons coping with the loss of their wife and mother; then it seemed to be an eccentric comedy with DeVito's... Full review

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A Wonderful Heart Breaking and Heart Worming Film. When I saw this film I was asthonished!!!!!!!!!!! The Love between a Mother and her children can never be broken!!!!!! I highly recommend this film to anyone who is a little kid... Full review

This movie is funny,sad,and loveable. This movie had alot of great moments. Some of them made me crying. It had some boring parts though. But this is a almost materpiece.... Full review

Jack the Bear is a wonderful movie. It is the story of John Leary (Danny DeVito) and his two boys, Jack (Robert J. Steinmiller, Jr.) and Dylan (young Miko Hughes, known e.g. from his later accomplishment in 'Mercury Rising'). It is... Full review

Saw this movie in HBO and man I was touched by this movie! Out of five stars I give this movie five. Jack the Bear has septacular entertainmant . The story about this movie is a dad who fights with his... Full review

This was probably one of Danny DeVito's best movies in my eyes, although all his movies are great. I loved this movie because he's very down to earth, and shows his true side. This couldn't have been any better made than... Full review

I really enjoyed this movie. I saw it the other day on t.v. and had never heard of it and watched it and just fell in love with it. Danny DeVito is excellent in this film and is his best performance... Full review

I bet you like me have lots of movies you saw when you were younger, and you remember them being great. Then, years later you get to see these movies, and they aren't that great, you understand that you've grown and... Full review

MDT "Jack the Bear" is a noble effort to give young audiences material that is meatier than most movies offer them....Danny DeVito gives an excellent, complex performance as single father John Leary, who has just moved with his two young sonsfrom New York to suburban Oakland, Calif.....DeVito is a fine anchor for all of this and young Steinmiller is very good in what is essentially the lead role..... ... Full Review

When he falls in love with classmate Reese Witherspoon, he stares into her eyes with gawky, touching rapture. Although similarly ankle-chained by bathos, Steinmiller is a likable personality. ... Full Review

DeVito has a few telling moments that suggest what might have been if the film hadn't turned the Leary house into a trauma center. He's packaged a small film of big emotions without digging nearly deep enough to make us believe them. ... Full Review

The way this dinner date and its sequel are handled is the best thing in the movie, remembering so well what it is like to be at the edge of adolescence and at the mercy of raging emotions. If the focus had stayed there, the movie would have been better, I think. ... Full Review

I'm sorry but im at my wits end trying to find out who sang the opening song to the movie Jack The Bear. Does anyone out there know ? thanks for your help. ... Full Article

"Jack the Bear," a thoughtful but flawed tear-tugger from "thirtysomething's" Marshall Hercovitz, probes a widower's (Danny DeVito) struggle to be both mother and father to his two young sons. ... Full Article

Marshall Herskovitz directed this tearjerking schizophrenic combination of The Wonder Years and To Kill a Mockingbird. It is 1972, and John Leary (Danny De Vito) and his two sons Jack (Robert J. ... Full Article