This family musical enjoys the dubious distinction of being the first film ever based on a theme park attraction, the "Country Bears Jamboree" at Disneyworld. Beary Barrington (voice of Haley Joel Osment) is an adolescent bruin raised by a human family after he was found by a park ranger, abandoned ...more
MPAA Rating: G | Year: 2002 | Running Time: 88 minutes
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$13.99COUNTRY BEARS
Don't believe the critics. With songs by John Hiatt, vocals by Hiatt, Don Henley, and Bonnie Raitt, and appearances by Christopher Walken, Queen Latifah, and rockabilly hero Brian Setzer, The Country Bears is far hipper than the animatronic troupe of fuzz balls from the old Disneyland theme show. The fantasy story plays out like a fur-covered The Commitments, with a bright dose of the old "let's put on a show" plot twist, but the young target audience won't find the familiar story line tiresome ...more
- Christopher Walken - Reed Thimple
- Stephen Tobolowsky - Norbert Barrington
- Daryl Mitchell - Officer Hamm
- M.C. Gainey - Roadie
- Diedrich Bader - Officer Cheets
- Charles S. Dutton
- John Hiatt
- Richard Kind
- Alex Rocco - Rip Holland
- Meagen Fay - Mrs. Barrington
- Eli Marienthal - Dex Barrington
- Queen Latifah - Cha-Cha
- Krystal Marie Harris - Herself
- Don Henley - Himself
- Peter Hastings - Director
- Andrew Gunn - Producer
- Jeffrey Chernov - Producer
- Mark Perez - Screenwriter
- Maria Baker - Art Director
- John G. Scotti - Associate Producer
- Ruth Lambert - Casting
- Genevieve Tyrrell - Costume Designer
- John G. Scotti - First Assistant Director
- George Bowers - Editor
- Seth Flaum - Editor
- Christopher Young - Composer (Music Score)
- Nora Felder - Musical Direction/Supervision
- John Hiatt - Songwriter
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Release Date: 12/17/2002











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