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(1993)
Title Jack the Bear
Year 1993
Director
Marshall Herskovitz
Genre
Drama
Plot – John Leary is the irreverent host of a TV program and he lives in Okland in a big stylish house. His wife is prematurely died and has left John to raise alone their two sons, three-years-old Dylan and Jack, who is twelve and is called "Jack the Bear".
All actors – Danny DeVito, Robert J. Steinmiller Jr., Miko Hughes, Gary Sinise, Art LaFleur, Stefan Gierasch, Erica Yohn, Andrea Marcovicci, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Reese Witherspoon, Bert Remsen, Carl Gabriel Yorke
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“There's no such thing as monsters. You all know that, don't you? Monsters exist only in ourselves. They live in the darkest chambers of our hearts.”
“I didn't poison your dog, Norman. If you knew me better, you'd know it's not my style. I'd have shot him.”
“- John Leary: You have to trust me.
- Gordon Layton: Why?
- John Leary: Because I can't lose my kids.”
“I didn't know yet what I was going to learn that year: that monsters were real.”
“We're at a crossroads, can you feel it? It's dark down there and there are things nobody wants to meet in the dark. Whether we'll come out on the other side, hating everything and everybody, I don't know.”
“- Jack Leary: Nothing is alright!
- John Leary: Then we're gonna make it alright.”
“Jackie, my heart's beginning to beat with the monster's heart.”
“I thought I knew all about monsters. I used to watch them late at night on dad's TV show. After we moved to Oakland, he stopped doing kid's shows, because he was different now. Everything was different. Now he was Al Gory, monster of ceremonies at Midnight Shriek.”