| Jack the Bear | |
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| Directed by | Marshall Herskovitz |
| Screenplay by | Steven Zaillian |
| Based on | Jack the Bear by Dan McCall |
| Produced by | Bruce Gilbert Peter Burrell |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Fred Murphy |
| Edited by | Steven Rosenblum |
| Music by | James Horner |
Production companies | American Filmworks Lucky Dog Productions Inc. |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 99 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $5.1 million[1] |
Jack the Bear is a 1993 American comedy-drama film directed by Marshall Herskovitz, written by Steven Zaillian based on the novel of the same name by Dan McCall, and starring Danny DeVito. The film is about John Leary (DeVito), a single father raising his two sons (Robert J. Steinmiller Jr. and Miko Hughes) in the 1970s San Francisco Bay Area after the death of his wife (Andrea Marcovicci).