The Country Bears (2002) on Netflix
Beary Barrington, a bear cub raised by a human family, runs away to Country Bear Hall, the old venue of a disbanded bear band. A banker wants to tear it down.
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Plot summary
Beary Barrington is a young bear cub living with the human family that adopted and raised him, and he feels different from them. Dex, his adoptive older brother, explains his background, and Beary leaves home for Country Bear Hall, the concert hall of a country rock band of bears that broke up eleven years earlier. Big Al, the caretaker, and Henry Dixon Taylor, the band's manager, tell him a banker named Reed Thimple wants to destroy the hall. Beary suggests a benefit concert to save it.
Cast
- Candy Fordas Trixie St. Claire
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Country Bears (2002)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The Country Bears was the last film role for Daryl Mitchell, who became a paraplegic in a motorcycle accident on November 10, 2001, eight months before the film was released theatrically.
- Disney fast-tracked The Country Bears into production both because of its low cost and to have releasable product on hand in the event of a possible writers' strike. The idea began when Disney VP of Production Brigham Taylor took his family to Disneyland, and Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group president Nina Jacobson pushed it forward.
