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Brother Bear

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Jeremy Suarez in Brother Bear (2003)
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When a young Inuit hunter needlessly kills a bear, he is magically changed into a bear himself as punishment with a talkative cub being his only guide to changing back.When a young Inuit hunter needlessly kills a bear, he is magically changed into a bear himself as punishment with a talkative cub being his only guide to changing back.When a young Inuit hunter needlessly kills a bear, he is magically changed into a bear himself as punishment with a talkative cub being his only guide to changing back.
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
110K
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POPULARITY
3,637
192
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    • Directors
      • Aaron Blaise
      • Robert Walker
    • Writers
      • Tab Murphy(screenplay by)
      • Lorne Cameron(screenplay by)
      • David Hoselton(screenplay by)
    • Stars
      • Joaquin Phoenix(voice)
      • Jeremy Suarez(voice)
      • Rick Moranis(voice)
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    • Directors
      • Aaron Blaise
      • Robert Walker
    • Writers
      • Tab Murphy(screenplay by)
      • Lorne Cameron(screenplay by)
      • David Hoselton(screenplay by)
    • Stars
      • Joaquin Phoenix(voice)
      • Jeremy Suarez(voice)
      • Rick Moranis(voice)
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    • 204User reviews
    • 96Critic reviews
    • 48Metascore
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 2 wins & 22 nominations total

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    Rick Moranis, Joaquin Phoenix, and Dave Thomas in Brother Bear (2003)
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    Joaquin Phoenix
    Joaquin Phoenix
    • Kenai
    • (voice)
    Jeremy Suarez
    Jeremy Suarez
    • Koda
    • (voice)
    Rick Moranis
    Rick Moranis
    • Rutt
    • (voice)
    Jason Raize
    Jason Raize
    • Denahi
    • (voice)
    Dave Thomas
    Dave Thomas
    • Tuke
    • (voice)
    D.B. Sweeney
    D.B. Sweeney
    • Sitka
    • (voice)
    Joan Copeland
    Joan Copeland
    • Tanana
    • (voice)
    Michael Clarke Duncan
    Michael Clarke Duncan
    • Tug
    • (voice)
    Harold Gould
    Harold Gould
    • Old Denahi
    • (voice)
    Paul Christie
    • Ram #1
    • (voice)
    Danny Mastrogiorgio
    Danny Mastrogiorgio
    • Ram #2
    • (voice)
    • (as Daniel Mastrogiorgio)
    Estelle Harris
    Estelle Harris
    • Old Lady Bear
    • (voice)
    Greg Proops
    Greg Proops
    • Male Lover Bear
    • (voice)
    Pauley Perrette
    Pauley Perrette
    • Female Lover Bear
    • (voice)
    Darko Cesar
    • Foreign Croatian Bear
    • (voice)
    Bumper Robinson
    Bumper Robinson
    • Chipmunks
    • (voice)
    Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley
    • Inuit Narrator
    • (voice)
    Patrick Pinney
    • Additional Voice
    • (voice)
    • (as Pat Pinney)
    • Directors
      • Aaron Blaise
      • Robert Walker
    • Writers
      • Tab Murphy(screenplay by)
      • Lorne Cameron(screenplay by)
      • David Hoselton(screenplay by)
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    • Trivia
      The lines, "I don't care that you and Binky found the world's biggest pine cone ever" and "First of all, it's not Binky, it's Bucky, and it wasn't a pine cone, it was a pine nut" said by Kenai (Joaquin Phoenix) and Koda (Jeremy Suarez) was an accidental improvisation because Phoenix messed up his line and Suarez corrected it when they were recording.
    • Goofs
      In the opening scene, the DVD subtitles identify the narrator as Sitka, when it is actually Denahi.
    • Quotes

      Mabel: This year, I lost my dear husband, Edgar.

      Edgar: Stop tellin' everyone I'm dead!

    • Crazy credits
      At the conclusion of the end credits, Koda appears to announce the standard declaration that no salmon were harmed in the making of the film. However, he is embarrased by a bear chasing a salmon behind him and signals for shooting to stop. Koda covers the lens with his paws and the picture goes black as he accidently breaks the camera while the fishing bear belches.
    • Alternate versions
      The 2013 Blu-ray release plasters the closing variant of the 2000 Walt Disney Pictures logo with the closing 2011 variant of the 2006 Walt Disney Pictures logo, which just reads "Disney".
    • Connections
      Edited into Zenimation: Nature (2020)
    • Soundtracks
      Great Spirits
      Written by Phil Collins

      Produced and Arranged by Phil Collins and Mark Mancina

      Performed by Tina Turner

    User reviews204

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    A film ahead of its time.
    Brother Bear is a real superb fable with many a social theme coursing through it. Relations between different social groups and the value people and animals hold dear to one another are transcendent. This film knows this, and shows us so.

    I have to be honest, I didn't think much of "Brother Bear" when I first saw the ads for it on TV all those years ago. I dismissed it as another Disney film which probably catered to kids, probably had high production values, and probably had some kind of story about a Native American turning into a bear via Disney magic.

    It's all those things, but it is so much more. Often our social cliques dictate to use what we assume other people must be like, and when we see someone who looks different from ourselves, we wonder if they actually are different. Otherwise a lot of us assume that other people simply operate they way we do, and get along as we do. It creates rifts in society that can spill over into violent social outrage.

    "Brother Bear" takes a page from the spiritual, and uses that plot device to propel the story forward to give one of the humans a taste of what it's like to walk int he footsteps of "the opposition".

    This Disney production, like a few other Disney productions, does not spare the talent. From the screenplay, which is coursing with great dialogue, story moments, focusing around a great premise that has ramifications world wide, to the voice talent, to the superb traditional animation style that only Disney can deliver to audiences. The result really is a superb film.

    A magnificent parable that not only has exceptional high production values we come to expect from Disney animation, not only has good leads for the voice talent, but also has Bob and Doug McKenzie reincarnated as a couple of moose from "the great white north" (take off, eh!). For them alone I had to see this film. Their commentary and actual roles in the film are G-Rated Disney fare (no beer jokes here, eh),

    Further, the themes in this Disney film really do touch the hearts of all creatures and people. Even if you're a die hard scientist and atheist like myself, you'll come to understand that even though you know that the concept of ghost or spirits is a nonstarter to begin with, it is the process of looking to the beyond ("super-natural") that ultimately leads us to look to our own more rational judgment, and how said good sound judgment on matters of the heart stemming from our feelings, is a strength. The film really does go after divisions between the races, sexes and nationalities, though uses our own primal paleolithic history to bring forth such a tale.

    If I had any real criticisms of this film, and I can't say that I truly and honestly do, it's that we didn't see more creatures of the era. We aren't sure if we're seeing vaunted cavebears (larger than the largest grizzly and polar bears), we saw woolly mammoths and woolly bison, but we didn't see dire wolves, woolly rhinos nor some of the other animals of an era long gone ago. But, as with all negatives about this film, that's nitpicking.

    All in all a superb Disney film. Watch by yourself, with friends, or with the family.

    Enjoy as much of it as you can.
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    • Release date
      • November 1, 2003 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Disney
    • Languages
      • English
      • Inuktitut
      • Croatian
      • Serbian
    • Also known as
      • Tierra de osos
    • Production companies
      • Walt Disney Animation Studios
      • Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida
      • Walt Disney Pictures
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $128,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $85,336,277
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $291,940
      • Oct 26, 2003
    • Gross worldwide
      • $250,397,798
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 25 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
      • SDDS
      • Dolby
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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