Jack the Bear
- Danny DeVito: John Leary
- Robert J. Stein Jr. Miller: Jack Leary
- Miko Hughes: Dylan Leary
- Gary Sinise: Norman knitting
- Art LaFleur: Mr. Festinger
- Stefan Gierasch: grandfather
- Erica Yohn: grandmother
- Andrea Marcovicci: Elizabeth Leary
- Julia Louis -Dreyfus: Peggy Etinger
- Reese Witherspoon: Karen Morris
My father - My friend is an American film drama directed by Marshall Herskovitz of 1993 With this film, a novel by Dan McCall was filmed. .
Action
John Leary lives in Oakland, California at the beginning of the 1970s. He moved there after the accidental death of his wife. John appears in a horror show and drinks too much alcohol. He cares only about providing his sons Jack and Dylan. At times, the children are raised by their grandparents, but Jack decides that he wants to return to the Father.
John's neighbor and neo-Nazi Norman knitting tries to win him for the election campaign of a politician who is an enemy of Jews and African Americans. Leary mocks the politicians on his show, what his boss thinks that he was exaggerating. He wants to dismiss Leary.
Knitting kidnapped Dylan, which is some time later found by the police and taken to a hospital. Knitted coat of Jack in his house and followed him to a tree, from the fall of the Nazis. Leary asks his boss for one more chance to come around this.
Reviews
- Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times, April 2, 1993) wrote that the character of Norman knitting and the storyline associated with it are unnecessary. He praised the play of Danny DeVito and Robert J. Stein Miller Jr.; especially the scenes in the Jack woos Karen Morris. The critic also praised the characters and wrote that he had while watching the feeling that John Leary and his sons would form a real family.
- Desson Howe (The Washington Post, April 2, 1993) praised the ' emotional intensity ' of Danny DeVito and Robert J. Stein Jr. Miller
- The lexicon of international film wrote, the film offers a " mentally confused mix of families and horror film in which the problems of the protagonists are constantly betrayed to gimmicky voltage elements." He was " annoying in the clichéd distortion of the fascist neighbors."
Awards
Reese Witherspoon won the 1994 Young Artist Award. Robert J. Stein Miller Jr. and Miko Hughes were nominated for the Young Artist Award.
Background
The film was shot in California and played in the U.S. cinemas 5.1 million U.S. dollars.