''Big Bear'' is a 2017 American

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film directed, produced, written and starring

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, also starring

Pablo Schreiber Pablo Tell Schreiber (born April 26, 1978) is a Canadian-American actor. He is best known for his stage work and for portraying Nick Sobotka on ''The Wire'' (2003), William Lewis on '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' (2013–2014), Mad S ...

, Adam Brody,

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Tyler Labine Tyler Sean Labine (born April 29, 1978) is a Canadian-American actor and comedian. He is best known for starring in the television series ''Breaker High'', '' Invasion'', ''Reaper'', '' Deadbeat'' and as Dr. Iggy Frome, head of psychiatry, in the ...

and

Zachary Knighton Zachary Andrew Knighton (born October 25, 1978) is an American actor, most widely known for starring as Dave Rose on the ABC comedy series '' Happy Endings''. Prior to that, he co-starred as Dr. Bryce Varley on ABC's science fiction series ''Fl ...

Plot

When Joe shows up for his bachelor party that his friends, Eric, Nick and Colin, have thrown for him, he has to tell them that his fiancé, Jess, broke up with him the night before as she's in love with someone else. They encourage him to stay and party anyway to help cheer him up. The next morning after a long night of drinking, Eric shows them that he has kidnapped the guy Jess left Joe for, "Dude". He is tied and bound to a chair in the basement of the cabin they are staying and Joe debates whether to let him go or scare him into leaving Jess.

Cast

as Dude * Adam Brody as Eric *

as Jess *

Toby Huss Tobias Huss (born December 9, 1966) is an American actor, known for portraying Artie in the Nickelodeon series '' The Adventures of Pete & Pete'' (1993–1996). He is also known for his voice-over work on the long-running animated series ''King of ...

as Cop *

as Nick *

as Colin *

as Joe * Patricia Rae as Waitress * Heidi Heaslet as Susan

Production

The film is

's directorial debut, which he also wrote and produced the film with MTY Productions President Brandon Evans, Brett Forbes and Patrick Rizzotti of Fortress Features and Luke Edwards.

References

External links

* * {{cite web , title=Big Bear , url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/big_bear_2017 , work=

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2017 films 2017 comedy films 2017 directorial debut films 2010s American films 2010s English-language films American comedy films Films about kidnapping in the United States Films scored by Anton Sanko