Search - Jack the Bear

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. Steinmiller Jr.) and Dylan (Miko Hughes) have just moved to Oakland, California. John is a television celebrity who has been fired from one station after another, appearing now on a cheap local station as the Saturday night host of a horror-film showcase. But John spends most of the time drinking and grieving over the loss of his wife, who was recently killed in an accident. The children try to adapt to their new school, and the family tries to adapt to the collection of kooks that populate their neighborhood. Foremost among them is Norman Strick (Gary Sinise), a sinister neo-Nazi who lives across the street. When Strick circulates a petition for the local white-supremacist candidate, John gets drunk and attacks him on his television show. As a result, Strick takes his revenge by abducting one of John's children. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Danny DeVito - John Leary
Robert J. Steinmiller - Jack Leary
Miko Hughes - Dylan Leary
Gary Sinise - Norman Strick
Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Peggy Etinger

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2	The Brute (R)
4	Permanent Record (PG-13)
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21	Postcards from the Edge (R)
14	Ordinary People (R)
1	Table for Five (PG)
6	The Doctor (PG-13)
38	On Golden Pond (PG)
5	The Stone Boy (PG)
S	Shattered Spirits
12	The Prince of Tides (R)
2	An Early Frost [Special Collector's Edition]
39	Driving Miss Daisy (PG)
2	Days of Wine and Roses
8	Clean and Sober (R)
2	That's Life (PG-13)
35	Mr. Mom (PG)
9	The Lost Weekend (NR)
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4	Hoffa [Special Edition] (R)
45	Terms of Endearment (PG)
15	Places in the Heart (PG)
13	Hannah and Her Sisters (PG-13)
1	Other People's Money (R)
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80	National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (PG-13)
8	Only the Lonely (PG-13)
19	Soul Man (PG-13)
29	The Sandlot (PG)
S	Joni (PG)
1	My Name Is Bill W. (NR)
3	The Van
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89	Stand by Me (R)
6	The Mighty (PG-13)
5	Mickey (PG)
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59	My Girl (PG)
34	October Sky (PG)
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