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      The Bears and I

      G Released Jul 31, 1974 1h 29m Kids & Family Adventure List
      Reviews 30% Audience Score Fewer than 50 Ratings A Vietnam veteran (Patrick Wayne) visits a fallen comrade's Indian father (Chief Dan George), then stays to raise bear cubs. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Nov 24 Buy Now

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      Tom Cassidy Common Sense Media Live-action Disney drama has violence and outdated terms. Rated: 3/5 Aug 28, 2020 Full Review Michael Szymanski Zap2it.com Rated: 0/5 Oct 7, 2005 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 2/5 Jul 16, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member Starring Patrick Wayne as a military vet that lodges on a lake near a Native American settlement. While there he adopts three bear cubs that lost their mother to hunters. Most of the movie is narrated by Wayne's character. I'm not a fan of this form of storytelling because a movie is a visual narrative and shouldn't be told to you, but shown. If a family movie about cute bear cubs seems like your thing, then check this movie out. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review s r Weak plot that had cheesy acting. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member ★★★ (out of four) In some ways this is a typical Disney live-action feel good movie. It blends the nature docu-movies the studio made popular in the 1950's with a decidedly 1970's envirinmental attitude. It isn't great, but it has a surprising amount of heart that makes it hard to discount. Patrick Wayne plays Bob Leslie. He has just returned from a tour of duty in Vietnam and he is a lost soul. He heads into the wilderness to visit the native american father of a friend who was killed in the war. Leslie loves the beautiful scenery and the lake. He stays there for a while, alone in a cabin. One day he sees a black bear with her three small cubs. When she is killed he adopts the three bears. More mature than most Disney films of that period. It suffers from an all-too-obvious attempt at being topical, but is still better than I ever expected it to be. [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v48/Zeppo1/BearsandI_zpsf52fd20d.jpg[/IMG] Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member A childhood favorite. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member (First and only viewing - 1/26/2011) Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member THE BEARS AND I (1974) Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis A Vietnam veteran (Patrick Wayne) visits a fallen comrade's Indian father (Chief Dan George), then stays to raise bear cubs.
      Director
      Bernard McEveety
      Screenwriter
      John Whedon
      Production Co
      Walt Disney Productions
      Rating
      G
      Genre
      Kids & Family, Adventure
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Jul 31, 1974, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Mar 1, 2013
      Runtime
      1h 29m
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