Shadow of the Bear

1997

Action / Adventure / Drama / Family

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IMDb Rating 6.0/10 10 61 61

Director

Mark Soulard Photo
Mark Soulard

Top cast

Michael Yarmush Photo
Michael Yarmush as Justin Andrich
Robert Higden Photo
Robert Higden as Joe
Alan Thicke Photo
Alan Thicke as William Andrich
David Deveau Photo
David Deveau as
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641.94 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 9 min
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1.16 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 9 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by meetjohndoe

Grin and Bear It

The basic plot of the movie is the typical "family fare" stuff (overworked dad, marriage in trouble, external threat imposed on family, danger to kids ultimately bringing family together, etc., etc.) However, in between the paint-by-numbers plot, there's more on offer, purely because of the actress playing the wife (a luminous talent named Danette MacKay, who has a small part in Spielberg's "The Terminal" as well). When the movie wanders off the well-beaten path into her far less predictable work, the film momentarily takes on the ambiguous aura of an Altman/art house film from the seventies: MacKay brings a bitter, sexy edge to her scenes with her husband (played by Alan Thicke), a quality that not only momentarily lifts the film out of the standard "kid's movie" plot line, but adds a compelling--and often ambivalent--Jean Genet-ish subtext to her character in the film (the bear storyline itself, however, totally sucks).
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Reviewed by bobtoich 10 / 10

Family Movie

I thought is was a great movie and the whole family could watch it.

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