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Synopsis: Danny DeVito is John Leary, a professional clown, whose wife's death in a car accident has left him to care for his two young boys. Loving, but useless at the daily job of fathering, the onus falls on plucky Jack the Bear (Robert J. Steinmiller Jr.) Leary's conscience, and a quantity of alcohol, leads him to denounce a neo-fascist candidate on his children's TV program, and also to the kidnapping of youngest son Dylan (Miko Hughes) by a disturbed neo-Nazi supporter.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Marshall Herskovitz
Production: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Rotten Tomatoes:
29%
PG-13
Year:
1993
99 min
88 Views


- You're welcome

A great man, Jack

Someone stays with you and your brother

while your dad's at work?

- Mrs Sampson

- Uh-huh

- An older woman?

- Uh-huh

I could tell he was

tryin'to get me to rat on Dad...

the way his friends

ratted on him long ago.

Fishing with red bait for something

he could hold against Dad to his grave.

Is he laying off the sauce?

Uh-huh

You know, it doesn't

help make things better, John... only worse

Couldn't resist, could you, Syd?

Tsk

- Didn't help your marriage much

- Sydney

- Is this why you came here?

- No I came to see my grandchildren

Then what are you doin'

talkin' to me?

You leave the children with strangers.

What's even worse... on their own.

I pay a responsible woman

to look after them.

- What the hell else do you want me to do?

- Don't use that tone

- You're talking about your own children's welfare, for God's sakes

- John

- John, listen We all want the same thing

- I'm not gonna discuss this

Fine. You keep drinking,

you lose this job like you lost the others...

and we'll go to court

and take those kids.

Tell you what, Syd:

Over my dead body How's that?

That's when

you can have my boys

They left that night.

Dad? Aren't you

gonna take Dylan to school?

It's Dylan's first day

Dylan, let's go!

- What are you doing?

- My shoes

Dylan

Dylan! Do you want the dogs?

I want Daddy

- Daddy's asleep

- I want Daddy take me to school

Daddy! Daddy!

Come on Come on

We live around here

I want Daddy

Where's Mommy?

"Where's Mommy?"

Listen, Dylan

- You have to go in there, okay?

- No

They'll be nice

You have to You have to go

Okay? Come on

I'll pick you up later

Now, go You have to go

Go

Japanese poetry is a drama.

It's about life and death.

- It's...

- Um, sorry I'm late I had to...

It's okay. Have a seat.

That's right. No desks. Join us.

- You have a desk

- Table

- Wanna sit at it?

- No, sir

No "sir" either

The name's Vince

Hi, Jack

I know about your mom

So We have a lot

of things for each of you to try

Besides the electrical experiments

and the herb garden

there's a "learning to communicate

your feelings" workshop I'll be teaching

Oh, Jesus!

Ohh

That's very nice.

There you go.

Hold onto my hand.

Throw your ball. Throw your ball.

Throw your ball!

- Can I help you?

- Yeah

Actually, uh, I was supposed

to drop off my son today

I was detained, and, uh, I just came by

to see if he was okay

- How old is he?

- He's three It's his first day

Okay. Take it easy.

Ifhe's doing all right,

maybe you should let him be.

It might be harder ifhe sees you.

He's a good kid

I'm gonna go

Get back in here.

- Is there a fire?

- No

It's that lady in there

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Steven Zaillian

Steven Ernest Bernard Zaillian (born January 30, 1953) is an American screenwriter, director, film editor, and producer. He won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award for his screenplay Schindler's List (1993) and has also earned Oscar nominations for Awakenings, Gangs of New York and Moneyball. He was presented with the Distinguished Screenwriter Award at the 2009 Austin Film Festival and the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement from the Writers Guild of America in 2011. Zaillian is the founder of Film Rites, a film production company. more…

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