The Country Bears
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Movie propaganda
They're legends. Bearly.
Like so many other bands of their era and stature, the members of the legendary group, The Country Bears, were torn apart by the perils of their own success: ego, women, jealousy and a little too much honey. In the 1970s, The Country Bears - brothers Ted (Brian La Rosa) and Fred Bedderhead, Tennessee O'Neal (Julianne Buescher) and Zeb Zoober - pioneered a unique southern rock sound that still influences music today. After ten years of separation and unfulfilling existences, the band has now reunited to film their first major motion picture. The Country Bears is the story of a band reuniting to save their birthplace.
Greedy banker Reid Thimple (Christopher Walken) is about to foreclose on the historic Country Bear Hall - unless the group's one-time manager and an eager young fan, Beary Barrinson (Haley Joel Osment), can convince the bitter ex-members of the rock band to put aside their differences and perform a benefit concert to save the musical venue.
Persons of interest
- Elizabeth Daily .... Barry Bearison
- Diedrich Bader .... Officer Cheets
- Julianne Buescher .... Tennessee
- Meagen Fay .... Mrs Barrison
- MC Gainey .... Roadie
- Krystal .... Miss Krystal
- Brian La Rosa .... Ted Bedderhead
- John Hiatt .... Tennessee O'Neal
- Eli Marienthal .... Dex Barrison
- Daryl Mitchell .... Officer Hamm
- Haley Joel Osment .... Beary Barrinson
- Alex Rocco .... Rip Holland
- Peter Siragusa .... Victor the Vulture
- Stephen Tobolowsky .... Mr Barrison
- Christopher Walken .... Reid Thimple
- Elton John .... Himself
- Don Henley .... Himself
- Willie Nelson .... Himself
- Mark Perez .... Screenwriter
- Peter Hastings .... Director
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Media intelligence (DVD)
- Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound
- Languages: English
- Picture: Widescreen (1.85:1)
- Special features:
- Featurettes:
- Jawin' with The Bears: Audio commentary with Director Peter Hastings and special guests Ted and Zeb
- Sing with the movie
- The Country Bears concert for America
- The Country Bears: Out of the woods
- Video Mix Master: Jamboree
- Music video: The kid in you by Krystal Marie Harris
- Subtitles: Closed captions, Croatian, English, English captions, Hebrew, Slovene
Security censorship classification
G
Surveillance time
88 minutes (1:28 hours)
Not for public release in Australia before date
Film: 16 January 2003
DVD rental: 30 April 2003
VHS rental: 30 April 2003
DVD rental: 3 September 2003
VHS rental: 3 September 2003
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