Jack the Bear
- PG-13
- Year:
- 1993
- 99 min
- 95 Views
Frankenstein! Frankenstein!
Frankenstein! Frankenstein!
Bring him down to the village,
and let's make it home.
I thought I knew all about monsters.
I used to watch them late at night
on Dad's TVshow.
After we moved to Oakland, he stopped
doing kids'shows, because he was different now.
Everything was different.
Now he was Al Gory,
monster of ceremonies at Midnight Shriek
Oh, Al?
What?
Oh, it's you again
So, anyway, before we dig in
to our second feature...
I have to pay a visit
to my aging mother
She would've
wanted me to have this
It was on real late,
way past my bedtime.
Dad didn't let me stay up to see it, so I used
to wait for Mrs. Sampson to fall asleep...
Hold it Hold it
I think that was a good one
and sneak
into his bedroom to watch.
But then I'd get scared,
alone in his room at night...
and I wouldn't know why.
I didn't know yet what
I was going to learn that year:
That monsters are real.
Whoa
We had
sort ofjust picked up and left Syracuse...
crossing the country,
finding a house...
of all the grown-up stuff together.
Here I'll get that
- Who is it?
- I got that
Come on, Dylan
I guess it
could've been strange being in a new place.
Can your dad
come out and play?
But it didn't take long for Dad to become
a celebrity among the kids on our block.
When's the monster
coming out?
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
They never actually
come out into the world...
unless, of course, a metal light appears
in the sky, but when's the last time you saw that?
So why don't we try and be adults
about this and run along home, okay?
- Hey, what's that?
- Mr. Leary!
- What?
- Look Look
- Look.
- There it is.
He was always
a madman for playing with kids.
Mom used to say that was because
he was reallyjust a kid himself.
Mr. Leary, what's this strange power
you have over our children?
I'm the perfect monster
And the house we found
in Oakland was perfect for playing anything...
especially the flashlight game.
Come on, Dylan In the closet
But it was different now,
the way he played with us.
It was like he had to do it.
After the heartbreak had happened,
sometimes I wondered...
if Dad didn't need our games
more than we did.
Okay. Right. That's right.
This is gonna be your bass note, okay?
Ready?
Where's "C"? Right Great
Great Now again
Sorry, Mom
Right
Very, very nice, Jackie.
- Hey, Jackie
- Hey
Mom?
Mom died last winter.
Dylan, don't wake Dad
Dylan and I were
still learning things you need to know...
when you move to a new house.
Like in our case:
Don't play in the backyard.
If you get caught
in there, they eat you
Out front, there was a whole
neighborhood to get to know.
Split the difference, okay?
Put the ball right there, okay?
Like Mr. Festinger, who always
yelled at his son Edward for being retarded.
Edward!
Edward, what did I tell you
about your eyes and the ball?
Never take your eyes off the ball
All right You almost caught it
You almost caught that one Come on Let's go
And Dexter, who lived next door.
My mom might be sleeping
His parents were really his grandparents...
because his real parents had split
from each other and from him...
and probably from everything.
Guess what We got company
Let's go to my room
Of course,
his grandparents weren't doing much better.
Did I tell you
he was a fighting Seabee?
No one else on our street would
let their kids play at the Mitchell's.
Come on Let's go
Them that are over there
That's them over there
See? Over there
Get 'em Get 'em Get 'em
Hey, Zombie That's right
I'm talkin' to you
The next time your dog
defecates on my lawn, he's dead, pal
Goddamn son of a...
And then there was Norman the Zombie...
in a terrible accident as a teenager...
when he crashed his T-Bird
into an ice cream truck.
He'd fixed up the car
and kept it on blocks in his driveway...
washing it every day.
You know, inside that cane
is a sword
- I've seen it
- And he attacked Mr Festinger one night with a tree branch
Hit him
right over the head with it
He also blinded his own dog
with a rock
You ever look at it?
Looks like a dead marble
- Oh, God!
- He's coming for us
Get down. Get down, Dig!
Get down. Dig! Dig!
Dig, he's comin'!
Is Norman gonna get us?
He's not gonna get us
He killed his parents You ever
seen 'em over there in a long time?
- I've never seen 'em
- You used to, walkin'around behind the curtains.
I'm not going to go look
That's for sure
Maybe we should.
- I'll get it.
- No. I wanna do it myself.
- Well, don't fall
- Okay, kids Get to bed
- See? I can reach it.
- Don't give Ms Sampson a heart attack
- What's up, Jackie Bear?
- Uh, nothin'
We're gonna have a lot of fun
at the studio tomorrow
But as for now, it's off to work
Buyin'a new car doesn't have to give you
a headache, not if you go to East Bay Dodge.
Ah My old friend,
Psycho Ward Cleaver
Put that thing down, Psycho,
and we'll go for a test drive
You know, Psycho, this
beautiful Dodge Challenger is loaded
- Air-conditioning Power
steering Blood bucket seats - Ooh!
Michael, wait up Michael
Quiet Quiet
Shh, shh-shh
- What do we do now?
- Let's go
- We got it?
- Come on
What are you doing? What
are you doing? What are you doing?
- Spray anywhere
Jackie, wake up
We gotta go downstairs
He said
he'd cut his foot investigating a noise...
outside his house.
I couldn't figure out
why he didn't tell Dad the rest.
He must not have too many good friends
if he had to come to us
in his time of need
He has a sword in that cane
Really?
Yeah And he attacked Mr Festinger
one night with a tree branch
Really?
Wonder why
he didn't use his sword
I guess that's when it all started.
I just didn't realize till later
that the trouble wasn't only with Norman.
Uh-oh Me spill
Who let this brat
into my crypt?
Spaghetti Bolognese? Now, how do you
expect me to clean up this mess?
This oughta do the trick
Don't move, Dylan
Hang in there Okay Cut
Camera one, lock it off
All right You can move now
- Peggy, take his clothes off.
- Come here
- Hi, Peggy
- Here you go, Jack Hang onto that
One day you're gonna like the girls doin'this.
Jack, don't you wanna be in the commercial?
No way
I have friends that watch this show
- Give me the clothes, Peggy Put 'em right here
- Yep
- John, can I see you for a second?
- Now, Gordon?
- John, can I see you for a second?
- Now, Gordon?
Right now
Do you mind?
All right
Well, let's take five
What? What?
You canceling the show?
No, no I love the show
I love the commercials I love everything
- You gonna give me more bread?
- Look.
I've been fightin'as hard as I can for you,
but they're pinnin'me to the mat.
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