Jack the Bear (1993) on Netflix
Their mother Elizabeth dies in a car collision. Jack Leary and Dylan move with their father John to Oakland, where John hosts a late-night horror show and Jack handles Dylan's care.
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Plot summary
Jack Leary and his brother Dylan move to Oakland, California, with their father John after their mother, Elizabeth, is killed in a car collision. John works as the host of a late-night horror show, appearing as Al Gory. His drinking disrupts the household, and some of the daily care of the boys falls to Jack, who brings Dylan to preschool on the first day. Their neighbor Norman Strick, who uses a cane, is an anti-social neo-Nazi. At school, Jack likes Karen Morris, a classmate of his.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Jack the Bear (1993)
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- CBS Theatrical Films and Jane Fonda's IPC Films had been trying to adapt Dan McCall's novel since the late 1970s. Roger Vadim was to direct, then Bob Rafelson replaced him with Jack Nicholson attached to star, until the collapse of CBS Theatrical Films in 1985 killed the project.
