The Bear (film)

The Bear, (also known as L'Ours) is a 1988 adventure film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud (who would years later do Two Brothers). It is adapted from the novel The Grizzly King.

After his mother is killed in a freak accident, an orphan bear cub hooks up with a wounded Kodiak bear as they try to dodge human hunters.

Not to be confused with Bear, which is a direct-to-video horror film that also features bears.

Tropes used in The Bear (film) include:

• Badass: The Kodiak
• Everything's Worse with Bears: Averted with the cub, but played straight with the hunters.
• Expy - Coincidentally, Brother Bear and the Disney Nature documentary film Chimpanzee share similarities.
• Family-Unfriendly Death: The death of the cub's mother as well as several other animals throughout.
• Family-Unfriendly Violence: While a majority of the violence is off-screen, the film tends to get quite gruesome despite its PG rating.
• Gentle Giant: The Kodiak towards the cub. The hunters however. . .
• Mercy Kill: One of the hunters has to put down their horse.
• Mushroom Samba: When the young cub eats some mushrooms, we are given a trippy sequence.
• The Film of the Book: The film is based on a book from 1916.