The Little Bear Movie

The Little Bear Movie (also known as Maurice Sendak's Little Bear: The Movie) is a 2001 Canadian animated adventure film based on the television series Little Bear, which in turn is based on the book series of the same name which was written by Else Holmelund Minarik and illustrated by Maurice Sendak, and produced by Nelvana Limited and Wild Things Productions. The film was released on direct-to-video on August 7, 2001 by Paramount Home Entertainment in the United States and Canada. It stars Kristin Fairlie as the voice of Little Bear.

The Little Bear Movie
American DVD cover
Directed byRaymond Jafelice
Produced byMaurice Sendak
Screenplay byJames Still
Raymond Jafelice
Nancy Barr
Story byElse Holmelund Minarik
Based onLittle Bear
by Else Holmelund Minarik
Maurice Sendak
StarringKristin Fairlie
Kyle Fairlie
Amos Crawley
Tracy Ryan
Andrew Sabiston
Elizabeth Hanna
Wayne Best
Ray Landry
Janet-Laine Green
Dan Hennessey
Music byLesley Barber
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Home Entertainment (United States/Canada)
Release date
  • August 7, 2001 (2001-08-07)[1]
Running time
75 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Plot

Little Bear and Father Bear set out on a camping trip. While camping on a hill Father Bear talks about the wilderness and the time he met an eagle. The next day Little Bear meets another bear in the wilderness called Cub. They both wrestle around in a river, Cub then chases after a moose leaving Little Bear all alone when he is met with a villainous mountain lion named Trouble, but Cub comes back and saves him from getting eaten. They then enjoy a grilled fish breakfast together with Father Bear before they decide its time to start heading home. Little Bear asks Cub if he wants to come with them, Cub agrees. Back at the house Cub tries to get used to living in a house. The whole family then makes flapjacks for lunch. Little Bear then wants Cub to meet his friends Cat, Owl, Duck, and Hen. When they learn that Cub got separated from his parents during a bad storm, they decide to go on a journey to search for them. They make missing person posters for Cub's parents and then head back into the wilderness to hang them up. While doing so they meet their friend Moose, he shows them that raccoons have used a poster to make a dam. Little Bear and Cub try to recover the banner, but beavers, angry with the raccoons break the dam and in the process Little Bear and Cub washed away in a flood, straight over a waterfall getting separated from the rest of the group. They find Duck has wandered downstream as well looking for Cub's parents. The three become lost in the dark wilderness and are unable to find the rest of the gang. They then run into Cub's best friends Poppy and Pete, two silly red foxes who took care of Cub when he lost his parents. They spend the night in the foxes den and the next day they keep looking and head towards a canyon. There they meet Trouble again and he tries to eat Duck, but Poppy and Pete save Ducks life. Little Bear manages to scare of the mountain lion with some help from Cub's parents. Cub and his parents are reunited and Little Bear is found by his family and friends. After saying goodbye to Cub, Little Bear heads home and on the way back to the house it starts snowing.

Characters

Music

The Little Bear Movie never had its launched soundtrack. The film contains two pieces of unknown music and the instrumental soundtrack of the series.

(1) Great Big World and (2) Everybody Wants To Paint My Picture:
Composed by: Marc Jordan and Antony Vanderberg
Performed by: Shawn Colvin

(3) The Little Bear Instrumental

Release and response

The film was released on VHS and DVD by Paramount Home Entertainment. Shawn Colvin (performer) and Marc Jordan/Antony Vanderburgh (composers) were nominated for Best Original Song at the 2001 Video Premiere Awards for the song "Great Big World."[2]

References

  1. "The Little Bear Movie". rottentomatoes.com. 7 August 2001. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  2. Scott Hettrick. "More than awards for vid nods". Variety. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
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