My father - my friend

Movie
German title	My father - my friend
Original title	Jack the Bear
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1993
length	95 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
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Director	Marshall Herskovitz
script	Steven Zaillian
production	Bruce Gilbert
music	James Horner
camera	Fred Murphy
cut	Steven Rosenblum
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Danny DeVito : John Leary Robert J. Steinmiller Jr .: Jack Leary Miko Hughes : Dylan Leary Gary Sinise : Norman Strick Art LaFleur : Mr. Festinger Andrea Marcovicci : Elizabeth Leary Julia Louis-Dreyfus : Peggy Etinger Reese Witherspoon : Karen Morris Gabriel Yorke : Gordon Layton Christopher Lawford : Vince Buccini Stefan Gierasch : Grandfather Erica Yohn : Grandmother

My father - my friend is an American film drama from Marshall Herskovitz from the year 1993 . A novel by Dan McCall was filmed with this film .

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John Leary lives in Oakland , California in the early 1970s . He moved there after his wife's accidental death. John appears on a horror show and drinks too much alcohol. He looks after his sons Jack and Dylan alone. At times the children are raised by their grandparents, but Jack decides that he wants to return to the father.

John's neighbor and neo-Nazi Norman Strick tries to win him over to the election campaign of a politician who is an opponent of the Jews and the African-Americans. Leary mocks the politician on his show, whereupon his boss says that he is exaggerating. He wants to fire Leary.

Strick kidnaps Dylan, who is found by the police some time later and taken to a hospital. Strick ambushed Jack in his house and followed him up to a tree from which the Nazi fell. Leary asks his boss for another chance until he gives in.

Reviews

• Roger Ebert ( Chicago Sun-Times , April 2, 1993) wrote that Norman Strick's character and storyline were unnecessary. He praised Danny DeVito and Robert J. Steinmiller Jr .; especially the scenes in which Jack woos Karen Morris. The reviewer also praised the characters, writing that while watching it felt like John Leary and his sons were making a real family.

• Desson Howe ( The Washington Post , April 2, 1993) praised the 'emotional strength' of Danny DeVito and Robert J. Steinmiller Jr.

• The lexicon of international films wrote that the film offers a "mentally confused mixture of family and horror film, in which the protagonists' problems are constantly betrayed by gimmicky elements of tension" . He is "annoying in the cliché description of the fascist neighbor" .

Awards

Reese Witherspoon won the Young Artist Award in 1994 . Robert J. Steinmiller Jr. and Miko Hughes were nominated for the Young Artist Award.

backgrounds

The film was shot in California and grossed $ 5.1 million in US theaters .

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1. ↑ Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
2. ^ Desson Howe, The Washington Post
3. ↑ My Father - My Friend in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed March 11, 2008

Web links

• My father - my friend in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• My father - my friend at Rotten Tomatoes (English)